Quotes About Spirituality

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.