Quotes About Spirituality

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Solitude is the place of purification.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

Our self-forgetful gaze on God is immersed in God's self-emptying gaze on us, and in this mutual meeting we find rest.

a remarkably gentle and insightful monk, Theophan, who says, "You must descend from your head to your heart. At present your thoughts of God are in your head. And God Himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in the summer.

Union with God is not something that needs to be acquired but realized.

The more we journey towards the Center the closer we are both to God and to each other. The problem of feeling isolated from both God and others is overcome in the experience of the Center. This journey into God and the profound meeting of others in the inner ground of silence is a single movement. Exterior isolation is overcome in interior communion

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

Thou fastest every day," said the Prophet, "and keepest vigil every night in prayer." "Yea, that indeed I do," said 'Uthrnan, for he had heard him speak again and again of the merits of fasting and of night prayer. "Do not so," said the Prophet, "for verily thine eyes have their rights over thee, and thy body hath its rights, and thy family have their rights, So pray, and sleep, and fast, and break fast."!

According to the Revelation the differences between one degree and another are vaster in the next world than in this: 'Behold how We have favoured some of them above others; and verily the Hereafter is greater in degrees and greater in hierarchic precedences.' And the Prophet said: "The people of Paradise will behold the high place that is above them even as they now behold the bright planet on the eastern or western horizon.

On another occasion those of his Companions who were with him heard him exclaim more than once: "O my brethren!" They said to him: "O Messenger of God, are we not thy brethren?" and he answered: "Ye are my companions. But my brethren are amongst those who have not yet come" - in other versions "who will come in the last days". The way he spoke suggested that he was referring to persons of great spiritual eminence.

Hadist riwayat Abu Bakar menyatakan bahwa Nabi bersabda, "Allah mengangkat derajatmu bukan melalui banyaknya salat dan berpuasa, namun berdasarkan kebaikan hatimu.

Mengenai kebutaan hati dan cara penyembuhannya, Nabi berkata, "segala sesuatu yang berkarat ada pengkilapnya, dan pengkilap hati adalah mengingat Allah.

When others were overcome by the heat, his hand would be "cooler than snow and more fragrant than musk".