Quotes About Spirituality

It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

?uvaj se mržnje, da ne pogriješiš prema sebi i prema ljudima. ?uvaj se žalosti, da ne pogriješiš prema Bogu

Smrt je preseljenje iz ku?e u ku?u. To nije nestanak ve? drugo ro?enje. Kao što prsne ljuska jajeta kad se pile potpuno razvije, tako do?e vrijeme da se rastave duša i tijelo. Smrt je nužnost u neizbježnosti prelaska u drugi svijet, u kome ?ovjek dostiže svoj puni uspon.

Ne osvajamo zemlju ve? grumen za svoju stopu ni planinu ve? sliku u svome oku ni more ve? njegovu gibljivu ?vrtsinu i odsjaj njegove površine. Ništa nije naše osim naše vere zato se cvrsto držimo za nju.

Griješne misli su kao vjetar ko ce ih zaustaviti U cemu je pobožnost ako nema iskušenja koja se savladavaju ?ovjek nije Bog i njegova snaga je baš u tome da suzbija svoju prirodu.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.

At that time I was struck by the strange, discouraging thought of how a man who is spiritually more developed than others is in a difficult situation, unless he is protected by his position and the fear that position instills.

Tada mi je padala na um ?udna, obeshrabruju?a misao da je u teškom položaju ?ovjek koji je duhovno razvijeniji od drugih, ukoliko ga ne štiti položaj, i strah koji taj položaj daje. Postaje usamljenik: njegova su mjerila druk?ija, i nikome ne koriste a njega izdvajaju.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

This is a matter between herself and God.

real religion is in people's hearts and not in buildings, texts, or rituals.

Every path leads to the same god.

I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon

Strange, don't you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?

her essential goodness, telling her that "self-knowledge is the foundation of Religion," not self-hatred.

Margaret expected her friends to "be capable of seeking something." She cared little what that something was, only that her friends "should not be satisfied with the common routine of life,—that they should aspire to something higher, better, holier, than they had now attained.

A man's idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts