Quotes About Spirituality

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward, I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

Man's life is of God, not of his goods, however abundant they may be.

You and those you love will receive the word of God by obeying it. That will allow them to feel His love. That is one of the great blessings of the gift of the Holy Ghost. When we feel that love we can know that our course in life is approved of God. That is the feast of the delicious fruit described in the Book of Mormon.

The words "Thy will be done," written in the heart, are the window to revelation.

It is the Holy Ghost who helps us see what God has done for us. It is the Holy Ghost who can help those we serve to see what God has done for them.

Success in the Lord's service always produces miracles beyond our own powers.

When you listen for the words of God and follow them, you will hear more. When you do not listen or do not follow, you will hear less and less until finally you may not hear at all.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

el espíritu se corporeiza y el cuerpo se espiritualiza», este intermundo que también podríamos llamar, según las tradiciones a las que nos refiramos, aquel de los cuerpos sutiles o de los cuerpos gloriosos, Henry Corbin lo fue a buscar por su parte en el islamismo iraní, en la mística sufí y chií, desde el andaluz Ibn Arabi hasta Sohravardi en Persia.

aquel que alcanza la realización, regresa a la belleza del mundo natural»

ces quelques lignes nous livrent peut-être le suprême message de la philosophie ismaélienne : " L'Imam a dit : Je suis avec mes amis partout où ils me cherchent, sur la montagne, dans la plaine et dans le désert. Celui à qui j'ai révélé mon Essence, c'est-à-dire la connaissance mystique de moi-même, celui-là n'a pas besoin d'une proximité physique. Et c'est cela la Grande Résurrection.

Y he ahí que en un momento supremo, de los labios del Dios hecho hombre, ascenderá este grito desesperado: «Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado?». Como si Dios hecho hombre debiese experimentar la desesperación otrora infligida por sí mismo a su siervo Job.

Ahora bien, si hay innovación, esta se sitúa precisamente en este punto. La teología debe ser, o volver a ser, una ciencia de la experiencia, aquella cuyos intereses conciernen directamente al destino de cada persona individual.

Para formular una «respuesta a Job» el individuo debe enfrentarse cara a cara consigo mismo. Esta respuesta será la obra de toda su vida, puesto que, retomando el título de un libro reciente, traerá el mensaje de su «primera y última libertad».

The individual is identified with the perishable; what can become eternal in the individual pertains exclusively to the separate and unique active Intelligence.

Others love you for their own sakes. I love you for your own self, And you, you flee from Me. Dearly beloved! You can not treat Me fairly, for if you approach Me, It is because I have approached you.

my vision of Him is His vision of me

The Imagination is the scene of the encounter whereby the supersensory-divine and the sensible "descend" at one and the same "abode.

To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of satisfaction with a theory of the world, not even a place of reformation, nor of some illusory transformation of the conditions of this world. It aims for self- transformation, for the inner metamorphosis which is implied by the notion of a new, or spiritual rebirth.... The adventure of the mystical philosopher is essentially seen as a voyage which progresses towards the Light.