Quotes About Spirituality

Heaven is everywhere, always, at once. Hell is not knowing it.

Go for love. Dare to see the greater truths.

The thinking you, as you have sensed, is not a product of your brain; it is channeled by your brain.

Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind.

God is the sum of all that is

You are the face of God as it's never before been seen.

Listen! God is talking back!

wouldn't a loving gather, I reasoned, have more compassion than to seek revenge on His comparatively feeble children who are temporarily blinded by the illusions of time and space?

Actually, no one knows much of anything at all, except: Everything is God, Thoughts become things, and Love is all.

Even as you peer at the world through your eyes, not from your eyes, your essence transcends the illusions.

All is exactly as it should be. There is no other agenda. Nothing else has to happen. You are God.

No wonder, given the brainwashing of the ages: being told that you are limited, aging, frail, born of sin, into sin, bound to unavoidably sin for the rest of your life, and that you'll be tested and judged anyway. Huh? Why? To see if you didn't sin? Quite an improbable setup. No win/no win. How about we roll back all of those ideas, leave the door open, and not connect dots that don't need connecting?

our infatuation with the spectacular can blind us to the ways in which God moves in and through the ordinary and the common.

Religion gives us forms and shapes for God to fit into, but He constantly proves to be bigger, wider, and deeper than our boxes. Just when we think we've figured out where God is going next, the wind blows somewhere else.

Welcome, child," he said. "Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger." "That is because you are older, little one," answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

is a mistake to market God as the answer to our insatiable desires when He was the one who made certain our desires were insatiable in the first place. God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring

God will guide those whose hearts are open to follow.

God is not looking for 'more and more' obedience but 'deeper and deeper' obedience. True obedience is of the heart. Externals matter only to the degree that they reflect (and affect) the heart.

So much of our teaching on what it means to follow Jesus depends on getting people to do 'spiritual' disciplines: Bible reading, solitude, fasting, service, prayer--these are all necessary and vitally important disciplines. But they are not the only ways we express spirituality, nor are they the only disciplines that are spiritual in nature.

Scripture teaches and assumes that all issues are spiritual issues and all disciplines are spiritual disciplines. This is the key to spiritual growth: the recognition that all aspects of my everyday life can be done for the glory of God and used by him to shape me more and more into the image of God.

The more we grow, the longer we walk with Him, the bigger Jesus should get.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.

one day you'll realize that you've had not just one or two past or future existences... but that you were, and are, everybody and everything that has ever been... or will ever be.

so the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.