Quotes About Spirituality

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12

tis very sweet to look into the fair and open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer full in the smile of the blue firmament.

I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspir'd. So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours; Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet From swinged censer teeming; Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming. Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: - Ode to Psyche - Excerpt

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.

Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.

moved by his own sermon.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.

The aim of inner healing is to change individuals—and indeed, the entire Body of Christ—into "a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13).

When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

Education is soul crafting.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.