Quotes About Spirituality

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power. I have seen it happen again and again.

They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, some day on their way meet Jesus.1

Again and again, I am aware that the Light not only illumines but it also burns .

It is curious how one's cup may be filled up by another and no words are passed to indicate the process that is taking place. . . It was as if, for a moment, I had been brushed by the angel's wing.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself." Jesus saw this with almighty clarity. Again and again he came back to the inner life of the individual.

I will make of my life a High Priest of Truth.

universalistic demands of morality. Faith requires

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.

This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5,6

Looking back, I see that my friends and I were all in the same boat—heading for hell on earth and trying to reach heaven in church.

Life is more than meat, and it is also more than theory.

If there's one thing I know, it's that God does love a good joke.

Reading was closely connected with eating; it was food for the soul. As food nourished physical life, reading nourished prayer. Hence, public reading during meals is a very ancient monastic custom. The reading that the members of a community heard in common, at meals and at other times, helped give them their unique culture.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

The New York Times in 1955 and Newsweek in 1957 both ran features on the religious boom on campus.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than mingle with the top brass in the tents of the wicked.

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

Spontaneity needs to be balanced by careful preparation and forethought. It needs to be supported by an intense prayer life on the part of the minister. One must be well experienced in prayer to lead in prayer. One can hardly lead if one does not know the way oneself. Spontaneity has to arise from a profound experience of prayer.

É uma a faculdade que mais importa desenvolver nas crianças: a de sentir que o divino se manifesta em nossa imediata vizinhança. Porém, muitas coisas que fazemos e deixamos fazer tendem a distruir tal faculdade, endurecendo o coração

Look within! The secret is inside you.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.