Quotes About Spirituality

Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions.

I'm a witch, not a Ouija board." --Rowan Gant (Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation)

As long as we try to fill this yearning with things other than God and activities other than God's purposes, we are unfulfilled and incomplete.

Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the source of our being.

Holistic spirituality is a pilgrimage of deepening responsiveness to God's control of our life and being.

the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.

Spiritual formation is not an option! The inescapable conclusion is that life itself is a process of spiritual development. The only choice we have is whether that growth moves us toward wholeness in Christ or toward an increasingly dehumanized and destructive mode of being.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.

We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

We need to let our family and our friends know this truth—God is love, "and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him. —2 Nephi 26:33

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

the Catholic Church was an egalitarian organization based on the equality of all God's children.

For Waters, faith expressed as love was the only answer.

black Catholic theology must be at once critically political and deeply mystical.

There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on.

Jung didn't believe in accidents. He proposed that resonance happens because we are functioning on more that our conscious level... (T)here is a force we don't see but it toes matter, energy and consciousness together.

One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over, so they really don't mind songs like 'Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall' or 'The Song That Never Ends.

In those paintings, angels clustered around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Just outside the garden walls is regular life, there are normal streets with dogs and puddles, and merchants and money changers go about their business, and farmers are working in the fields, but inside those hidden, holy spaces, these solemn people are outside of time. They are beyond hurt, beyond wounding.

For then they who hold others in Bondage shall know the Lash & Shackle - & shall remain enchained to this Flesh, hobbled with Bone, when the Rest are released from their Gross Bodies into the hallowed Air.

Everyone who was born had to die; those who died would be reborn again. The killer and the slain: these were terms that had no meaning. The soul could never be destroyed. The soul discards a worn-out body for a new one as human beings discard old clothes for new, said Krishna, and there was nothing in this to grieve about.

Tudo se resume e se resumirá, pelos séculos, a uma estratificada e convencional briguinha entre o Mal e o Bem.

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal.