Quotes About Spirituality

the saint told her that more tears were shed over prayers that were granted than ever were shed over prayers that were refused.

nunc et in hora mortis nostrae

Vade retro, Satanas!

but the truth is, the more hours I spend in contemplation, the less I know about God-and the more I realize how arrogant it is for us poor humans to squeeze the Infinite into our limited definitions.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

God is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, he is unmoral;

it seems that he didn't want a world turned to mud. He believed in a soul.

God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.

Le temps est le péché de l'éternité.

Il est facile de se tourner vers Dieu quand le reste n'est plus là.

Il faut bien se tourner vers Dieu quand le reste n'est plus là.

God doesn't expect perfection—he wants good women who are motivated by deep love for him and who aren't afraid to make a few mistakes along the way.

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

Christian Nice Wives might also bury valid marriage concerns in a misguided attempt to fulfill 1 Peter 3:1–4. They may believe the "gentle and quiet spirit" praised in this passage means that they should muffle their authentic self, as if wives who hide their hearts under a heavy wool blanket please God the most.

Her spiritual training conspires against her as well, having subtly told her that having human wants and needs is somehow worldly, selfish, and even unchristian.

life lived in search of God is real life, the only life worth living.

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

Sheen said that the communists had failed to convince the world that there is no God. Rather, he quipped, they had succeeded only in convincing the world that there is a Devil.33

It's like heaven was not a place you go but a process you fall back into that makes you remember that you have always been connected with everything and everyone. Now, sometimes I feel like I can still sense my heart, wherever it is. I think it's because the energy that was my heart is still in me and connected with the stuff that is my heart in another body.

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, Amen and Hallelujah!

The holiness of madness was transformed into the more humanist concept of 'wisdom'.