Quotes About Spirituality

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with merry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head

the soul cannot live without sorrow.

our souls are love, and a continual farewell

The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

The crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic: born in sin, you May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you.

He still loves life But O O O O how he wishes The good Lord would take him.

He has never seen God, but, once or twice, he believes he has heard Him.

It is through you that God has chosen to show me my beatitude.

he suggested I pray to the Muse get down on my knees and pray right there in the corner and he said he meant it literally

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

O nobly born…. Be not daunted…nor terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance of thine own nature. Recognize it.

O nobly-born, listen on distractedly. On the Second Day [of death] the pure form of water will shine as a white light.

The hour has come when energy and pure love are needed.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart