Quotes About Spirituality

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

I'll take your case, son. I believe in your innocence no less than my own." "Thanks, man. You a lawyer?" "No, a Hindu. And you?" "I'm Jewish. But I studied Buddhism.

to know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.

I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!

Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

Does prayer change God or change me?

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.