Quotes About Spirituality

Padre nostro che sei nei cieli, concedimi una buona istruzione, fa' questo miracolo, al resto ci penso da sola con un po' di rimmel».

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself "spiritually" the underdog. Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

We in our secular, rationalist world are utterly unprepared for such existential-spiritual spasms. For one thing, we do not study the history of religion in any serious way, even for explanations of religious phenomena. Instead, we look for sociological explanations, or economic explanations, or even political explanations, and we do so precisely because we find it almost impossible to posit spiritual appetites and spiritual passions as independent, primary forces in human history.

We'll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

God Was Here but He Left Early

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary they shall walk and not faint.

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

No text without inspiration

Hudson Taylor was right in his discovery: "Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas.

The wise and sagacious men of ancient times had the very spirit of the martial and did not kill.