Quotes About Spirituality

Spirituality is a broad concept, transcending religious boundaries. By virtue of being human, all people are spiritual, regardless of whether or how they participate in religious observance.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I ain't much of a church man, Mark. Guess you might say I'm an agnostic. I don't know." "There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity. None of us knows how much - only enough to trust to reach out a hand in the dark.

If you're suffering and in pain, ask the Lord to touch your life in a new and special way. Open your heart to the message of love freely given. By embracing the true meaning of the season, you'll find transformation and healing.

Wherever the living are,' whispered my foster mother, 'the dead will be there too.

I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence." -The Sacred Echo

And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo

God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

when journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours.

if God spoke creation into existence, should we be surprised when creation speaks back to us about God?

Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

Lighten up" (don't) turn prayer into a work but listen for God and let oneself be surprised. Overly rigid adherence to a spiritual direction built around formal liturgical adherence and highly structured prayer time can work against the sanctification of the ordinary. Christ is effectively imprisoned, to be visited at stated times and otherwise ignored".

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.

We are hungry, and we don't know for what. We want something, but we can't name it. The parish is taking good care of us, nourishing us with word and sacrament, just as the hospital made sure that Mrs. G was fed, nursed, and medicated. But we want something else, something more: we want to be touched, we want to be known as children of God.

the words from Aelred: "Here we are, you and I, and I hope a third, Christ, is in our midst.

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

I could not speak for the salt that filled my throat, and for anger - not at anyone, at God, perhaps, for giving us eyes but almost never sight.