Quotes About Spirituality

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

gratitude makes for soul-growth.

We oft have battled for an empty name And sought by dogma, edict, creed, To send each other to the flame. Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul Nailed to the Cross to die ? If not: Then why these divisions at all? Christ's love doth enfold you and I. His pure sweet love is not confined By creeds which segregate and raise a wall. His love enfolds, embraces Humankind ;

because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.

Je regarde à travers mes pleurs. Ici la mort a pour voisine la croissance des palmiers nains : Ton corbillard, ô ma Delphine ! n'est qu'un oiseau des boulingrins. Quand je fus fatigué de larmes, las des voyages et malheurs, un coin de violettes de Parme avança le pied du Seigneur.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

The Ankh represents the connection all life has to that which has gone before, the umbilicus. It is the sign of life infused into humans from the divine spark and thence from human to human. The Ankh refers to that which is protected, renewed and vitalized; it is the descent of the eternal principle, the Atum, into the physical plane.

God's servant, like the god himself, wore new clothes every day.

I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of

Where 'doing one's job' cannot be directly linked to the highest spiritual and cultural values--although it may be felt to be more than mere economic coercion--the individual today usually makes no attempt to find any meaning in it. Where capitalism is at its most unbridled, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, divested of its metaphysical significance, today tends to be associated with purely elemental passions, which at times virtually turn it into a sporting contest.

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

All the great religious doctrines of Asia are creations of intellectuals.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.

Heaven is always taken by storm.

let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified.

in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.