Quotes About Spirituality

Il invoquait le jour où la sphère divine se gonflerait, après toutes les transformations des âmes. Car le monde que nous connaissons est l'oeuvre de la haine, et sa dissolution sera l'oeuvre de l'amour.

So, I turned to angels, and pondered at length their androgyny.

Nuestros amores fueron como los misterios del rosario: gloriosos, gozosos, y cómo no, dolorosos.

There is always more to this world than what you can see with your eyes.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Prayers like gravel Flung at the sky's window, hoping to attract the loved one's attention . . . . . . I would have refrained long since but that peering once through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement of a curtain.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Qué le ha pasado al pecado? Ya no está incluido en el índice de temas importantes a tratar. Aparentemente ahora hay otras cuestiones más relevantes y más convenientes: prosperidad, estrategias de «iglecrecimiento», declaración positiva, autoestima, múltiples seminarios sobre diversos temas, pero poco acerca de la santidad y de vivir apartado del pecado.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

The antidote to a culture of self- promoting leaders is one where leaders – and everyone else – repent often and forgive often, delighting themselves in the Lord, praying and praising him for the glory of his wonderful grace. A culture, therefore, in which leaders can lead out of weakness, no longer needing to be impressive or having to prove themselves to receive praise and affirmation from people.

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more and are eager to talk about them. They also frequently report that they had never before been asked that question in a church setting or given an opportunity to talk about it.

rather than God being "out there" in the heights, God is known in the depths of personal experience.

Spiritual fitness was important, too. I never allowed myself to forget who was in command as I went through these paces. In the journal I kept, the final words in each entry were the same every day: "Thank you, God, for one more day." No matter how bad things would get, I'd never forget to tell Him that.

Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who shares himself in the divine?

Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.

Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses, memorized the teachings of Christ. When I passed, I expected to find him there." She stared out the window. "But in the centuries I walked beyond the world, I never saw him.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.