Quotes About Spirituality

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Chesterton once said, on the subject of innate human dignity, that it all depended on the presence of the holy spirit, and that it was otherwise hard to take the human body seriously, belonging as it did to a creature that nourished itself by pushing food into a hole at the bottom of its face.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The most holy person is most in touch with his own depravity and, consequently, with the great mercy and kindness of God. In a sense he has grown downward, not upward; he is humbled, not exalted.

When our lives are lived for the Lord, to the glory of God, and in the name of Christ, all of life becomes worship.

No true God demands mindless belief and punishes the honesty of those who admit their doubt. The Mother knows you must doubt, to understand, to grow in wisdom.

You just have to live and love and do your best in both. That's God, and that's heaven, and it's not something we have to wait until we die to find. It's here, now, in all of us.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

MARY'S HIDING Before these possessions you love slip away, say what Mary said when she was surprised by Gabriel, I'll hide inside God. Naked in her room she saw a form of beauty that could give her new life. Like the sun coming up, or a rose as it opens. She leaped, as her habit was, out of herself into the divine presence. There was fire in the channel of her breath. Light and majesty came. I am smoke from that fire and proof of its existence, more than any external form.

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.

A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.

We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan will make camp in perfection Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination You are soul, and you are love,... No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

Love is the religion and the universe is the book.

Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.

as humans, we automatically attach a whole string of judgments, interpretations, questions, and beliefs to situations. Our task involves accepting the imperfection of our own humanity and loving ourselves for having these judgments, including the one that says we must be a spiritually moribund person for creating this reality.

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

Faith should be at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We're so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.

O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

Gods live past our meager death. We die past their ceaseless living.