Quotes About Spirituality

She was baptised to Christ-their name for the pattern, her path, her wyrd. She was still herself.

I didn't believe in ki, or the energy from the earth, or light shooting out of fingertips, but the fact was, when I relaxed and thought about energy flowing smooth and liquid through my arms, my arm didn't bend.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI

Each time you perform a positive action, it is like depositing money into your karmic bank account. Each time you do something hurtful or negative, it is like writing a check from that bank account. The goal is to build up as much karmic currency as possible in order to ensure your current and future lifetimes will be filled with positive, happy energy.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

Therefore I say unto you, after God, to woman must belong your best thoughts, for she is the divine temple where you will most easily obtain perfect happiness.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

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