Quotes About Spirituality

combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack.

Torah says that if you seek Yahweh your God you will find Him if you look for Him with all your heart and soul.

You see, here's the word for man—and the word for woman. All the letters are the same except for these two. And if you put those two letters together, they form the name of God. If you share a love for each other and for God, His presence will dwell in your midst.

What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs?

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift...

Ah, but that would require a spending time with God--more than an hour or two on Sunday, I suspect--getting to know Him, communing with Him, praising Him.

You have beautiful hair"... and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and made them whole again.

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself.

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

religion as a bridge to truth rather than a set of strictures—remained

The Dalai Lama has also suggested that the fifteenth Dalai Lama could be female.

the Dalai Lama evolved daily habits that have remained largely unchanged up to the present. He rises at 4 a.m. and drinks warm water and a Tibetan medicinal drink. He spends five of the day's hours in prayer.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Abbey of Cluny

the Christian art of secluded Ravenna.

Whereas in the past my Christianity was focused on work and effort and striving, I can honestly say that the center from which my spiritual life flows today is the time I set aside daily to be silent in the presence of God, emptying my mind as best I can of words and thoughts, and simply inviting God to fill that open space. Every time I do this I feel as if I fall into a well of love—a love that centers me, calms me, and heals me on deeper levels than my conscious mind understands.

In retrospect, I see it more like this: the true God, in grace, set me free. Even in my desperation, I don't believe I would have had the courage to walk away from my childhood God unless the Spirit of a different God had whispered in my ear: I understand. I know your soul needs to be purged and healed from the wound of the false God. So, do it. Turn your back. Walk away. It'll be okay.

Major General Colin Gubbins, who headed the British agency charged with inciting sabotage and subversion in occupied Europe, observed after the war that of all the European countries overrun by the Nazis, "only the Poles, toughened by centuries of oppression, were spiritually uncrushed.

Lynne Reid Banks

What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?

How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we're too distracted flirting with the world to notice.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

David started this stunning soul declaration with the assurance that with God there is fullness. There is no lack. Nothing can be added or subtracted with human acceptance or rejection. With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.