Quotes About Spirituality

Those without Christ often abandon themselves to eating and drinking because sometimes it looks as if that's all there is to do before we die. But those who love Christ cherish eating and drinking because it looks a little like what we will do after we die.

We speak of God because he first spoke to us.

If you truly believe in a supernatural afterlife, to be sure, nothing can really disappoint you. But there is no consolation in being the last Mohican.

when dealing with the Absolute, there can be no such thing as debt.

Osage concluded that this force was ultimately unknowable and gave it the name Wakonda, which could alternately be translated as 'God' or 'Mystery'.

This is a vision of human life as inherently corrupt, but it also frames even spiritual affairs in commercial terms: with calculations of sin, penance, and absolution, the Devil and St. Peter with their rival ledger books, usually accompanied by the creeping feeling that it's all a charade because the very fact that we are reduced to playing such a game of tabulating sins reveals us to be fundamentally unworthy of forgiveness.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. -C.S. Lewis

But God – I mean, even if there is a God – reaching out to him… Who would know where to start?" "You don't have to start," he answered. "God has already started. He is already reaching out to you. That's why he became a person.

Se una persona, non importa chi, decide di chiudersi in se stessa, di isolarsi spiritualmente per portare a termine una missione difficile, non importa quale, potrà mai tornare a essere quella di prima? Esattamente come prima?

Buber, M. (1990) The Way of Man.

The sexuality of a man is more of the earth, the sexuality of a woman is more of the spirit. The spirituality of man is more heaven, it goeth to the greater. The spirituality of a woman is more of the earth, it goeth to the smaller.

The origin of the great Way (the Tao) [is] the heavenly heart.... If you can be absolutely quiet then the heavenly heart will spontaneously manifest itself.124

Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism starts with fire while Taoism starts with water."134

The true self] rests in direct intuition. Therefore I said: "Better to abandon disputation and seek the true light."60

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

recorded by Chuang Tzu, but said by Lin Hui: My bond with the child Was the bond of Tao.25

it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers, and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than [people] with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism—all qualities with which I was only too familiar from myself, that is, from personality No. 1, the schoolboy of 1890.

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.

The church that worships will have many visitors who never come back, and a few who cannot stay away. Perhaps

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

the closer you become to the Holy Spirit, the more you will love Jesus. A passionate love for Jesus is the ultimate sign of fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Still, there is nothing wrong with pursuing fellowship with the Spirit Himself.