Quotes About Spirituality

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter.

The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives Were builded, with his own, into the walls, As offerings unto God.

And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the soul.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how." (11)

This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better.

If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice--after all, it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice once and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

difference between heaven and hell was people.

Religion is hard. You either see Jonah in the belly of the whale or you don't, my dark sister. It's all on the inside.

She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. Why else are flowers so beautiful? she says to me. why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.

the good Lord put alcohol and carbs on this planet for a reason and I'll be damned if I'm going to let Him down.

When I die, I'm going to slam into help, take off my bra, sit on Satan's lap, and say Hi, Honey, I'm home.

was deeply inspired by this story of a grandmother's faith now influencing the great-grandchildren she never even met. My frequent and

Dr. Dave Stoop tells us that one-tenth of one percent of couples who pray together daily will get a divorce. That incredible statistic underlies what Norman Vincent Peale, the well-known pastor from New York City, used to say: "I have never met a couple who prayed together who didn't stay together.

prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

If the devil can't make you bad, he will make you busy.