Quotes About Spirituality

Michael stands next in authority to Jesus Christ himself "and presides over the spirits of all men."6

I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?

The Cloud of Unknowing.

as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

All right," said Julian, looking around the table. "I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

Worry! What a waste of time. All the holy books were right. Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person. What was that line from Yeats, about the bemused Chinese sages? All things fall and are built again. Ancient glittering eyes. This was wisdom. People had been raging and weeping and destroying things for centuries and wailing about their puny individual lives, when—what was the point? All this useless sorrow?

transubstantiation

And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

And isn't the whole point of things-beautiful things-that they connect you to some larger beauty

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

If a person really wants to know God and will give up his sin and turn to Christ, God will make Himself real to him. In our day the problem is that a great many folk do not really mean business with God.

My friend, God loves you today. If you knew how much He loves you, it would break your heart—you would be in tears. Now you can keep from experiencing God's love, but you cannot

Im Schützengraben bleibt man nicht lange Atheist.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

We must ask them to lay their hands on their hearts and tell us whether their favorite opinions comfort them in the day of sickness, in the hour of death, by the bedside of dying parents, by the grave of a beloved wife or child. We must ask them whether a vague earnestness, without definite doctrine, gives them peace at seasons like these. We must challenge them to tell us whether they do not sometimes feel a gnawing "something

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.