Quotes About Spirituality

A Yogi must avoid the two extremes of luxury and austerity. He must not fast, or torture his flesh. For, says the Gita, "He who fasts and he who eats too much, he who keeps awake and he who sleeps much, he who works too much and he who does no work, none of these can be Yogis.

Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.

We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

the gift of revelation through the Holy Ghost is a gift of God unto "all those who DILIGENTLY seek him," and

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. –

All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less.

o be entirely honest, I know of nothing quite so boring as Christianity without Christ.

Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is.

Guru Nanak asked those who considered women impure and incapable of spiritual liberation, mukti: Why do you condemn woman, the one from whom great men and kings are born? It is through despised woman that we are conceived and born; it is to woman that we become engaged and married; woman is our lifelong companion who perpetuated the race. (AG 473)

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped.

This teaching is similar to the statement of William Perkins: "The desire for grace is an evidence of grace.

W. Scott Poole

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony—in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals.

Where there is nothing, there is God.