Quotes About Spirituality

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

church has become a religious event that takes place once a week, rather than a spiritual family on a mission together.

True prayer is joining with God's heart. God's heart is full of love for those who are the lost and least in this world. You cannot draw near to God and remain callous to the hurting.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

Spiritual yearnings are natural to many people, and may give them solace or hope, but extremists of any stripe are not content with faith as armor; they must forge it into a sword.

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

I am an optimist because I think it might just be possible for people to learn how to recognize empty, false, self-serving, or inhumane language, and therefore to protect themselves from at least some of its spiritually debasing consequences.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

wooden pews for worship services.

God is everywhere, you know.

minister's gallery

The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.

sin-confess-sin-confess-sin-confess-and-sin-again cycle does not deal with all of reality. It

Because wholeness and meaning in life are not the products of what you have or don't have, what you've done or haven't done. You are already a whole person and possess a life of infinite meaning and purpose because of who you are—a child of God.

All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.

We can know all about God, but not know Him at all. We

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Rock 'n' roll is everybody's fucking music…I would certainly hope that it's the devil's music, but it's not just the devil's music. I think that's where God and the devil shake hands – right there.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.