Quotes About Spirituality

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Hebraism and Hellenism,??between these two points of influence moves our world. At one time it feels more powerfully the attraction of one of them, at another time of the other; and it ought to be, though it never is, evenly and happily balanced between them. The final aim of both Hellenism and Hebraism, as of all great spiritual disciplines, is no doubt the same: man's perfection or salvation.

In mystery our soul abides.

How generally, with how many of us, are the main concerns of life limited to these two: the concern for making money, and the concern for saving our souls!

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words.

The teachings in the Visuddhimagga begin with purification of virtue since the completion of the path to liberation rests squarely on the foundation stone of morality. This point cannot be over-emphasized.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.

men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

Who is this woman who preached of the "web of life" that all creation shares, but who warned that "the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed"—and that if humans misuse creation, "God will permit creation to punish humanity"?

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.