Quotes About Spirituality

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above.

That——that butterfly has got more of God in him than Jackson will ever see for the rest of eternity.

God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, "I and my Father are One

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

If you are in need of any spiritual thing -- joy, assurance, peace, or whatelse soever -- you can only come into full possession of it by giving an equivalent; you must pay the price for it.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

L'étape suivante est une infinie réaction au principe créateur qui suit la Loi Une dans une de ses distorsions primales: la liberté de volonté. Ainsi, de très, très nombreuses dimensions, en nombre infini, sont possibles.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The living standard by which a person uses to measure their mortal life is the one which will be used to reward them in their afterlife

when God says to do or not do some physical thing with our bodies, it is important that we pay heed because this is one of His ways of dealing with us in a total fashion. It shows a very superficial understanding of human existence to say, "Well, what matters is my heart attitude, not the posture of my body.

Indeed, as we have seen, God is the most immediate implication of self-consciousness.

the greatest danger which today's humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither is it famine, nor even disease; rather it is spiritual malady, which is the most terrible malady because the most directly human among the scourges is to remain "without the taste for life."5 In such a situation, the individual finds himself ever more vulnerable within the social fabric. This is the most dangerous outcome of solitude.

Per questo ho detto che Marcellino pane e vino è il cinema della morale cattolica. Infatti, Marcellino è tutto negli occhi.

La compagnia non è la semplice evoluzione della tua capacità affettiva, ma è un'opera che lo Spirito costruisce sulla fragilità del tuo sì... Secondo me, se ripetete cento volte questa frase, è molto meglio che cercare altre parole con cui spiegarla.

Non è una «cosa» la grazia, la grazia è una presenza;

L'equilibrio, insieme al miracolo e all'intensità del vivere, è una delle tre caratteristiche del santo.

Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?

Who was she to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to chew His gifts?

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed (311).

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

Only an idiot would fail to see God in a meal!