Quotes About Spirituality

Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know.

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.

I sensed it was finally safe to ask the question without seeming like an ingrate. God? Where were you? For 107 days where were you? Where were you in my unconsciousness and where were you in that hospital room when I wanted to feel your presence with fireworks and explosions of emotions and supernatural palpability? Where were you, God? [...] I was there, my child, [...] I was the peace, I was the breath, I was the comfort.

Plugging into a tree is like being plugged into the Sun.

Live innocently; God is here.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Had I not been thinking always of the ludicrous aspects of my own plight, or of the plight of others, I could not have survived that depressing, degrading experience without spiritual harm.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.

Economics is closer to religion than science.

as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

Anol shedom Anol sheh lay konnah ve-um (shaddai)

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand.

Once you start that important spiritual housekeeping work, your Imposters will surely protest. Your Victim Imposter might whine: I don't wanna do the hard work. Don't make me! Your Egotist Imposter might lament: I already know that I can do the hard work, ergo I don't need to do it. I don't have to prove anything to anyone!

We all need to do some amount of emotional and spiritual housekeeping. When we commit to that process, we evolve. We grow. And we get more in touch with our Authentic Souls.

following Christ wasn't about religion; it was an intimacy with his Creator that had him constantly hungering for more.

If, quite against all of Adele's naturally held beliefs, it turned out that there was an afterlife, she strongly suspected that in heaven it would always be a Friday night.

May there be rivers of margaritas flowing through the valleys of heaven.

He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.