Quotes About Spirituality

Only old people go to church, when they know they're running out of time.

Weesageechak for sure. The clown who bridges humanity and God-a God who laughs, a God who's here, not for guilt, not for suffering, but for a good time.

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.

But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon, he may need it.

if machipoowamoowin, bad dream power, was obvioulsy powerful enough to snuff out a human life, then would not mithoopoowamoowin, good dream power, be as strong?

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

But she would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?

It's only by spending time with Jesus that our thoughts, words, and actions will ever be transformed into His image.

As you read, remember that God is completely committed to you. Don't just read for information but seek the transformation He offers.

Father, I thank You that this very day, You and the Lord Jesus are releasing grace, peace, and mercy into my life. Thank You that Your grace, Your love, and the communion of the Holy Spirit are mine today.

I am a wave on a shoreless sea. From no beginning I travel to no goal, Making my movements stillness. Constantly I am arriving And departing, Being born and dying. I am always with you And yet have never been.

They bought boiled peanuts from every vendor they spied alongside the road and had important theological discussions as the miles slipped away.

Simply defined, prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference.

Religion can be one of the greatest hindrances to faith because it creates dependency on a ritual rather than on the God of the universe who can do all things.

I heard the Watersprinkler playing his flute.

Full of mysticism—most of it nonsense and all muddled up—but something in him driving him to know more than a natural man is supposed to know.

I hear you're a medicine man. I heard you are a singer of the Blessing Way. Is that right?" Chee looked slightly stubborn. "Yes sir," he said. "I would like to ask you to sing one for me," Leaphorn said.

on the cross, just moments before his death, Jesus cries out in anguish and dereliction, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" That is the pivot point of all cosmic history, for in that moment God became fully human. Only when God felt abandoned, alone in the universe, did God gain total empathy with the human condition.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

BELIZE: Louis, I'd even pray for you.      He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe . . . A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at least. Isn't that what the Kaddish asks for?

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

I am not . . . . . . my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience.