Quotes About Spirituality

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

I love her. I love her to death." "You love her through death," I correct gently. "You don't stop loving someone just because they're not physically with you.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike. What do you mean? Your daughter, Dr. Keller says flatly. I think she's seeing God.

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

work, pray and play not from here

TempleTemple is a place where God stays, In your heart is where God lays.So if you can touch the God inside your heart, Divine bliss shall always become your part.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

Note to self: No matter how busy life is, NEVER stop reading the word!