Quotes About Spirituality

The Holy Spirit is faithful to empower you to carry out your witness of Jesus.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships.

Doubt treats God's Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.

Only in God can you find true fulfillment.

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility's strength is grounded in God.

Toward a Life of Prayer

Nathan's mother is thinking about the body of Christ and the wings of angels. Her spirit lightens in the safety, the sanctity, of the church. Dark hair surrounds her pretty oval face. Light from the stained-glass window tints her skin. Nathan thinks about the body of the son of the farmer who owns the house Nathan's parents rented three weeks ago.

My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass

Perhaps when we die our names are taken from us by a divine magnet and are free to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crow who can reach the top of Antelope Butte. (From: Hard Times)

It's up to poets to revive the gods.

Christ rose so long ago but the air he rose through hasn't forgotten the slight red contrail from the wounds.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

They merged again one evening sitting on the porch swing watching fireflies and the thousands of stars above them, idly moving the swing back and forth with their feet. The night was unbearably beautiful with the constellations speaking their own strange language to each other. He told her he thought it might be the uninvented language used by Jesus and the Buddha to speak to each other.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

Death makes Angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as Ravens claws

If evil in this world is deeply human and very real, and religious people believe it is, it just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.

Racism is rooted in sin—or evil, as nonreligious people might prefer—which goes deeper than politics, pointing fingers, partisan maneuvers, blaming, or name calling. We can get to a better place only if we go to that morally deeper place. There will be no superficial or merely political overcoming of our racial sins—that will take a spiritual and moral transformation as well. Sin must be named, exposed, and understood before it can be repented of.

he reminds us of Christ. When he asks, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"9 he reminds us of Christ.

A modern American prophet, like Micah, once said, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is a nation approaching spiritual death."3 He was Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and he also made the connection between war and poverty.