Quotes About Spirituality

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Que tu hermano en Changó, Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar, te acompañe y te proteja y nunca aparte de tu corazón la patria de su hermano José Martí, Cuba —dice el babalao. Hugo respira profundamente e intuye que muy dentro de sí yace la esencia de la eternidad. Ahora sí se siente asistido por el espíritu inmortal de Bolívar.

Ustedes recuerdan lo que dijo Jesucristo? Que más fácil será que un camello entre por el ojo de una aguja que un rico entre al Reino de los Cielos. —El auditorio celebra. Él continúa—: Nosotros no queremos ser ricos. ¡Ser rico es malo! Es inhumano, así lo digo, y condeno a los ricos.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

TARTUFFE. Love for the beauty of eternal things Cannot destroy our love for earthly beauty;

On n'a pas besoin de lumière, quand on est conduit par le ciel

He attracted the eyes of the whole congregation by the fervency with which he sent up his prayers to Heaven.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

She crossed herself and started to pray in that loose, easy way Roman Catholics do: 'Holy Mary, pray for us now and in the hour of our death … Merciful Jesus

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

The journey inward is what gives meaning to the life outside ourselves. Not in any static, dogmatic, once-for-all way either, but in a way that grows and develops and changes to meet different circumstances, different stages of development. Contemplation is not an optional extra -- it is, as much as action, part of the very stuff of being human." 

God is the universe. We are all now living inside the body of God. There is nowhere to go to get there, we are already here. There is nowhere to go to get outside of God; there is just a forgetting of this truth. It is impossible not to be living, right now and always, within God's body. It is only possible to be aware, or unaware, of this fact. Religions

Paganism has no fixed creeds or dogmas, no self-proclaimed gurus or prophets, no holy books or saviours. Earth Herself is our teacher. Pagans, like all, natural peoples, desire to live in harmony with Earth and see all Her manifestations, whether animal, plant, insect, rock or mountain, or, as Native Americans say, four-legged, two-legged, crawling and flying, as our relations and as ensouled.

Each man creates god in his own image.

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway leading to my cottage, creeping along behind a battered, rust eaten pick-up truck with a sticker on its rear bumper that read JESUS SAVES, I used to think don't count on it, buster. Now I am no longer sure.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

And people pray—millions of them—and claim they are answered. Are they? Was ever supplication sent into that sky by troubled humanity answered, or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for health and success and both are but natural in the marching of events. This is not evidence. But they say that they know, by spiritual uplifting, that they are heard, and comforted, and answered at the moment.