Quotes About Spirituality

When it comes to the whole Bible, I believe we should not only be reading right through the Bible individually at least once a year – for clergy I'd say twice a year at least, and perhaps the gospels four times a year, and if this means reworking your personal schedules then fine, do it – but that we should make it possible for our congregations to try creative experiments for how to experience the whole Bible.

The Bible is part of God's answer to the ancient human quest for justice, spirituality, relationship, and beauty. Read it and see.

If we spend time in the prayer of lament, new light may come, rather than simply the repetition of things we might have wanted to say anyway.

This should not put us off. A world full of people who read and pray the Sermon on the Mount, or even a world with only a few such people in it, will always be a better place than a world without such people.

your praying and your preaching should be of the same length. You don't want to find yourself limping, with one leg shorter than the other. God works as a result of prayer and faithfulness, not technique and cleverness. But

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism.

When we sing, the sound made even by small-scale earthbound creatures such as us rings around the rafters that we cannot otherwise reach.

Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings.

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

God is just a name for our wonder.

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

En réalité, chacun de tes ennemis est ton remède, ton élixir, ton bienfaiteur, ton vrai ami. Car tu t'enfuis de lui et tu implores Dieu. En revanche, tes amis sont des ennemis. Car, en t'occupant, ils t'éloignent de la présence divine.

Si la vie s'est écoulée, sa racine est le présent. Arrose-là de l'eau du repentir. Alors le poison de l'an dernier se change en sucre, les mauvaises actions se transforment en dévotion, le passé lui-même devient sans tache.

amaban los arcángeles como los humanos? ¿O sus sentimientos eran más profundos, de esos que arrancaban sangre al corazón?

Te curarás, Elena. Y entonces te enseñaré cómo bailan los ángeles.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known. —I Corinthians 13:12