Quotes About Spirituality

All religions have been made by men.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I stood knocking at the doorsteps of heaven as I died… "Who are you…?" I was asked. "My entire existence on earth could not tell me who I was… And that is what I have come to ask you…

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least—call it a mechanospiritual sense—we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

wandering, roofless and free, over the sun-scorched deserts. . . for in them we quite lost the trail of the twentieth century and of our materialistic and commercial civilization. . . Even the wrinkles and crow's feet that lined our white faces . . . were burned away. In the silence of the desert and the sweep of pure winds our souls were washed clean, till we too seemed true children of the Earth-Mother and the Sky-Father.

Why else are first thoughts so energizing? Because they have to do with freshness and inspiration. Inspiration means "breathing in." Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself, and first thoughts are present. They are not a cover-up of what is actually happening or being felt. The present is imbued with tremendous energy. It is what is.

Lighting a candle helps create a sense of magic.

Suzuki Roshi once said to his Sixties American students that the way they dressed- with beads, long hair, brightly colored clothes-they all looked alike. Shave your heads, wear black robes, he said- Ah, now I can see your uniqueness. Our ideas and intentions can mask and cover up a story; there is a life force that will declare itself if you let it. Get out of the way.

14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present.

Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God.

You get to choose how to tune your physical frequency through your spirit or subconscious mind, to attract and manifest the outcomes that you physically want!

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Elk inspired people; they were a symbol of everything that was special about living here.

What keeps most of us from God is not the sin we know we have, but the righteousness we think we have.

That day, so many wept. Young and old, friends and strangers, black and white, men and women wept. The angels wept. Jesus wept. Coach Gabe Lewis, though, with his eyes on the lilies, shed not a single tear.

Among His own people, Jesus is tekton. For the centurion, Jesus is kyrie.

Before Ellen White had her first vision, we were about one thing. We had an all-consuming, irrepressible, irresistible, overpowering, radical desire to be with Jesus.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

My job is not to be right; it is to be in Christ. My job is to explore the wonders of His mercy and His grace together, in community.

If William Miller is a great example of someone who started out with a deep conversion, then sought to be theologically correct out of that experience, Ellen White represents those who started out wanting to be right, then learned to love Jesus.

The Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America.

Oh, Lord, we are not of those who wash in wine, water, urine, vinegar, fire, oil, bay rum, milk, brandy, or boric acid. Oh, Lord, we are of those who wash solely in the Blood of the Lamb.