Quotes About Spirituality

The Koran presents Allah as being forever hidden from humanity. The Bible presents Jehovah as drawing near and seeking us out.

L'ARBRE GEANT FREMISSAIT sous les coups de hache. A coté du colosse végétal, les hommes à la peau sombre, luisante de sueur, ressemblaient à des miniatures mouvantes. [...] La grande forêt pris le deuil. Les bruits les plus fantastiques se mirent à courir : on avait tué l'Arbre-Dieu.

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Nous voulons retourner dans l'ancienne demeure Où nos pères ont vécu sous l'aile d'un archange, Nous voulons retrouver cette morale étrange Qui sanctifiait la vie jusqu'à la dernière heure.

The Enlightened One, if he had meditated on it, would not necessarily have rejected a technical solution.

Michel Houellebecq

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral  que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

In werkelijkheid bekommert God zich om ons, Hij denkt elk moment aan ons en geeft ons aanwijzingen, soms heel nauwkeurige. Die golven van liefde die in onze borst opwellen en ons de adem benemen, die ingevingen en extases, waar onze biologische natuur, onze eenvoudige primatenstatus geen verklaring voor kan bieden, zijn uitzonderlijk heldere tekenen.

People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable.

Queremos regresar a la antigua morada donde el ala de un ángel cubría a nuestros padres, queremos recobrar esa moral que hasta el postrer instante santifica la vida

Eu suspeitava que o que o atraía no mosteiro não era tanto a possibilidade de escapar ao chamamento dos prazeres carnais, mas sobretudo a possibilidade de se livrar da esgotante e taciturna sucessão de pequenas preocupações da vida quotidiana (...). Ao menos, no mosteiro, dão-nos cama, mesa e roupa lavada - e como bónus, no melhor dos casos, a vida eterna.

Or maybe I was just hungry. I'd forgotten to eat the day before, and possibly what I should do was go back to my hotel and sit down to a few duck's legs instead of falling down between the pews in an attack of mystical hypoglycemia.

kutsal ancak tekrar yoluyla vard?r ve her tekrarda deÄŸeri biraz daha artar.- Ä°sfahan halifesi, Ä°ki Åžölen ya da Anma Töreni

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

There are two "camps" which interpret Sor Juana's final years: the Catholic interpretation sees her renunciation as a turn to spirituality and devotion, while the secular camp sees Sor Juana as a woman persecuted by the Church. Both positions are ideological, for they are based on a desire to depict Sor Juana as either converting to or surrendering to the desires of the institutional Church. Both are too simplistic.

The abundant life is the beautiful fruit of pursuing Jesus, and it was never intended to be a pursuit in and of itself.