Quotes About Spirituality

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The Christianity of the St Stephen's College I remember was atmospheric (how we loved the chapel, the choir and the Cross), cultural and entirely subtle.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

Though you may not see any signs of sexual sin or weights, you still need to see Jesus on a regular basis for a checkup. P.46

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Prayer really can change things.

Yes, God is real.

Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

The joy of The Lord really is strength.

A good first step to getting to this peaceful place is to write down your hurt. Let it all out. All of it. Once you're through writing it down, ask God for help. You want the path to forgiveness to be cleared. You want to let go of the mind loop of blame. You want to let go of the fire of anger. You want to stop tasting the bitterness of betrayal and hurt. Once your path is cleared…the sky is the limit.

me the grace of God. They, as well as other powerful souls, were my spiritual role models. They didn't have great mansions or millions of dollars to leave me when they passed, but they planted the seeds of grace, the invaluable gift of knowing God.

through my body. I'd be clearheaded, in tune with nature, grateful, close to God.

And then… I stopped running. Why do we stop doing the very things that nurture us physically and emotionally, and feed our spiritual growth? It's a big question, one always worth contemplating. At this particular time, I stopped running because I was drawn so fully into my work that my focus narrowed and I shut out some of the things that truly mattered most. The desire to achieve in my career became all-consuming, and for a while, I lost my sense of balance

Someone asked me, "What do you have to say about Rajneesh after his death?" I said that the world has never seen such a pimp nor will it ever see one in the future. He combined Western therapies, the Tantric system, and everything that you could find in the books. He made a big business out of it. He took money from the boys; he took money from girls, and kept it for himself. He is dead and so we don't say anything. Nil nisi bonum (Of the dead speak not unless it be good)

What is death?' 'I imagine it as being taken out of time, bodily time, and the physical dimension. And whatever we were, our personality or what we sometimes call the soul, goes to God and we leave our body here. It returns to the earth. It belongs to the earth. But it also gives rise to new life.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

She needed to hear the reminder, the reminder that there was more to this life than her heart. Even if it could never be mended completely. She had her soul. She had the Hereafter. She had her faith.