Quotes About Spirituality

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God

He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice.

We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge.

God speaks to us individually, each and every one of us, that we need neither pope nor priest, nor bleeding statue, to find our way to faith. God is calling and we only have to listen. There are no clever tricks to forgiveness. There is only one way and there is only one Bible, and a woman can study it as well as a man.

I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.

I believe there is a creator, a great creator of the world, but I do not know his name. I know the names that he is given by man. Why should I prefer one name to another? What I want to know is

His Holy Nature, what I want is the help of his angels, what I want to do is to further his work, to make gold from base, to make Holy from Vulgar.' He broke off.

we ourselves will be transubstantiated, we shall be angels

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I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Through the years I found two things that clearly tune in the radio station: one is truth and the other one is love. When we tell ourselves the truth instead of lies, we are automatically tuning in Higher Power energy. In choosing truth, we choose to be loving to self and others; then the radio station is absolutely, perfectly clear.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

God exists only if adored Time is nothing if one has not dreamed (Painting)

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal to us the dimensions of God.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.