Quotes About Spirituality

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

Padre,' Tomás replied, 'my only confession is that I do not believe in confession.

The People crossed themselves. They knew a Jesus reference when they heard it.

Don't you ever just get tired of religion? Isn't it all just exhausting?" Padre Adriel considered him for a moment. He crossed his arms, then put a finger to his lips. "My friend," he said, "no one is more tired of religion than a priest.

God has worker's hands. Just remember—angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.

Where do you find more eroticism than in the cloister of a convent?

Religion and Myth. It is impossible to understand Art and the glory of its history without avowing religious spirituality and the mythical roots that lead us to the very reason of being of the artistic phenomenon. Without the one or the other there would be no Egyptian pyramids, nor those of ancient Mexico. Would the Greek temples and Gothic cathedrals have existed? Would the amazing marvels of the Renaissance and the Baroque have come about?

Without the desire for God, our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.

O louva-a-deus é como Deus pretendia a espécie, uma haste de louvor à sua Glória. Uma planta com senso bastante para sentir dor e devoção e nada mais.

That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

At Imbolg, we always use a version of that in our ritual, with each person who wishes to pulling out three strands of hair by the roots and feeding them into a flame while putting themselves anew under the protection of Brighidh.

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers. 'Close your eyes and breathe deep.' 'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say. 'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows...Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.