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Quotes About Spirituality

God isn't dead. He's just getting a second opinion.
~ Milton Berle
As far as he was concerned, the whole religion thing was a racket for overeducated men who didn't want to do real work.
~ Min Jin Lee
I talk to the dead although I don't believe in ghosts. But it makes me feel good to speak with them. Maybe that is what God is. A good God wouldn't have let my babies die. I can't believe in that. My babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.
~ Min Jin Lee
I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God.
~ Min Jin Lee
Love for God, he'd thought, should come naturally and not out of fear of punishment.
~ Min Jin Lee
Yes, it has happened to me, but not always so vividly. I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God. Perhaps God is always talking to us, but we don't know how to listen," Shin stated.
~ Min Jin Lee
You saw all sorts of things in a church where forgiveness was expected.
~ Min Jin Lee
I was beautiful because I'd been made in God's image. How could I not be so?
~ Unknown
Maybe part of the problem is that you're not making enough time for reflection and solitude and prayer. Are you avoiding God, Joel? Are you trying to run from Him the way Shadow has run from us?" He
~ Unknown
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
To simply be ourselves is the greatest challenge but the simplest spiritual technique. A
~ Ming-Dao Deng
There is no utopia. There never will be. There is only the valiant attempt of each person to live spiritually in a world where spirituality is almost impossible.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Never stop trying to cultivate the sacred inside you.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Spirituality is creativity. Only with creativity can you remold your personality into a spiritual vehicle.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
When people go to hear a spiritual master, they do not go to hear self-deprecation. They go to see perfection.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Keep life simple… turn toward the divine. It satisfies, it brings knowledge, and it brings joy.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Draw energy from the earth Admit power from the heavens Fertilize the seed within Let it sprout into a flower of pure light
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Budist? ?sitikinimu, vyras ir moteris turi tobul?ti t?kstant? met?, tik tada juodu sudarys karm?,leidžian?i? pad?ti galvas ant tos pa?ios pagalv?s.
~ Unknown
I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.
~ Unknown
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
~ Minna Antrim
classroom. Instead of saying you're born, you live, you die, Hinduism says you're born, you learn, and you're reborn—this is the idea of samsara. Everything you do, think, and feel creates
~ Mira Kirshenbaum