Quotes About Spirituality

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

I listen to a lot of 'Ave Maria.'

Men typically marry for love and to raise children. The mistake they make is that they're looking for love from the wrong source. Men shouldn't look for love from women. Rather they should find God's love and pass that love down to the wife and children.

There are, however, Christians and people of other faiths who seem to have no trouble speaking of God's ultimacy with one breath and staking out a private territory of God's activity and grace with the next.

Why am I holding a dog full of angels?

Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again... We are the bees of the invisible... [Our work is] the continual conversion of the beloved visible and tangible world into the invisible vibrations and agitation of our own nature.

There is a way of beholding nature that is itself a form of prayer.

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93.   Yiddish's

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds

T]here is only one zot, thisness. Zot is a feminine word for this. The word zot is itself one of the names of God—the thisness of what is. The

Consider the inner garden, that secret glade filled with day dreams, feelings, and memories. Sometimes they can be made physical, a goal of metaphysical gardening. Otherwise they remain mere reflections in a gazing ball.

I believe in God,' Frank Lloyd Wright said, only I spell it Nature. Gardeners spend much of their time kneeling in postures of prayer.

Again she missed God. She had shared everything with him. From childhood she had gone to him with every question, doubt, delight, and triumph. He had accompanied every advance in her thinking; in action he had been her daily collaborator. But God was gone. This was something she was going to have to work out by herself.

The laws of life and death, as she had learned them, were incomplete. There was more to life, more to death, than medical science had known.

God gave man Jesus to redeem their sins and gumbo to redeem their stomachs." He

Spirituality is not just about religion, or church attendance, or fidelity to one or other legal requirement. Spirituality is understood to be an innate wisdom of the human heart that enlivens a zest for life, a search for meaning and purpose, a love for all that is good and beautiful, a passion to create a better world, a sensitivity to the life-energy (God, if you wish) that permeates the entire cosmos.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

Vicar: You ought to try [religion], one of these days, he said. I believe you'd like it. I said: but I have tried it, haven't I? I've been to church. It never seems to take.

I tried to explain: 'Well, once you stop believing in an old gentleman with a beard...It's only the word God, you know – it makes such a conventional noise.' 'It's merely a shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Well, for inexperienced pray-ers it sometimes is. You see, they're apt to think of God as a slot-machine. If nothing comes out they say 'I knew dashed well it was empty' — when the whole secret of prayer is knowing the machine's full." "But how can one know?" "By filling it oneself." "With faith?" "With faith.

Well, once you stop believing in an old gentleman with a beard . . .It's only the word God, you know — it makes such a conventional noise." "It's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about." "And do religious people find out what it's all about? Do they really get the answer to the riddle?" "They get just a whiff of an answer sometimes.

Handle a single leaf in such a way that it manifests the body of Buddha. This in turn allows Buddha to manifest through the leaf.