Quotes About Spirituality

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.