Quotes About Spirituality

Reverend Olumide sits down in the chair facing me. Young man, what do you mean by this, this is a serious thing to say, we all need to be saved.

knížka Podivná doba] Michnik: V existenci ateistických civilizací v?bec nev??ím. Dokud existuje civilizace, trvá i potÃ…â"¢eba metafyzického. Mohou existovat ateisté, ale nem?že existovat ateistická civilizace.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

One who moderates the senses, also the God of the regions of the dead.

Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite

may still be traced in the present Ajudhyá near Fyzabad. Ajudhyá is the Jerusalem

Praise to Válmíki,2bird of charming song,3 Who mounts on Poesy's sublimest spray, And sweetly sings with accent clear and strong Ráma, aye Ráma, in his deathless lay.

Booth died blind and still by faith he trod,Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.

Factory windows are always broken Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection.

God wants us to walk but the devil sends a limo.

I have faith that the shift in my physicality is crucial to the growth in my spirituality. When one sense weakens, another grows strong.

I could always know from this moment on that God is ever present, and the human picture just does not matter. That miracles are normal and to expect them.

The Magician represents the man who has attained harmony and equilibrium between the spontaneity of the unconscious (in the sense given to it by C. G. Jung) and the deliberate action of the conscious (in the sense of "I" or ego consciousness).

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

In Tibet, the word for meditation is gom, which means "to become familiar with one's self.

Spirituality centered in love is hard work, but it is solid granite. Because love doesn't insist on who is right, it isn't at risk when we are shown wrong. It simply is a commitment to a foundational set of values – and a values commitment is something that no one else can take away.

Il mare sarebbe Dio? - No, ma è lo specchio in cui Dio si riflette. Guai a chi infrange il suo ordine e altera il ritratto dell'Onnipotente, composto dalle onde quando sono calme e si succedono regolari. Non può risultarne che una tempesta, attraverso la quale Satana troverà il suo varco.

All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.

As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. And he, who in this oneness of love loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth, he lives in me...

All the baubles offered by the material world fail to satisfy because they are themselves products of finitude and impermanent by nature.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.