Quotes About Spirituality

On the other hand, maybe God was taking away my children so as to bring me closer to Jacob.

Lordmakeusthankfulfortheseandallourmanyblessin's.Amen

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Beauty is God's wine, with which He recompenses the souls that love...

Music is my higher power

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

You practice loving God by loving another human.

Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man. Both of them have the same God, the same Teacher, the same Church. They breathe, see, hear, know, hope and love in the same way. Beings who have the same life, grace and salvation are called … to the same manner of being. Clement of Alexandria Tutor,

Sacred Scripture does not set men and women in opposition to one another in respect to sex. Sex does not constitute any difference in the sight of God. Origen Homilies on Joshua,

Many women have distinguished themselves no less than men in the spiritual warfare, and some of them more … It was not only men but also women who followed Jesus, and he accepted help from women as much as from men. Basil of Caesarea Shorter Rules,

In union with God, the heart absorbs the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one. Quotation attributed to St John Chrysostom by Callistus and Ignatius Xanthopoulos, 52 (Philokalia IV,252)

To be deified is to enable God to be born in oneself. Dionysius the Areopagite Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, II, Intro. (PG 3,392)

In the midst of the fire he stood, not like burning flesh, but like bread baking. Martyrdom of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna,

God's love for humanity wraps the spiritual in the perceptible, the superessential in the essence. It gives form … to what is formless and, through a variety of symbols, it multiplies and shapes Simplicity that has no shape. Dionysius the Areopagite Divine Names, I, 4

We may gain some inkling of what God is if we attempt by means of every sensation to reach the reality of each creature, not giving up until we are alive to what transcends it … Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies,

The 'contemplation of nature' can give spiritual flavour to our lives even if we lay no claim to be in any way 'mystics' in the rather particular sense that this word has acquired in the West. A little loving attention in the light of the Risen Christ is enough. The humblest objects then breathe out their secret. The person becomes the priest of the world at the altar of his heart, celebrating that 'cosmic liturgy' of which Maximus the Confessor speaks.

True prayer is not only of the mouth, it is of the heart, that is, of the whole being. It is a cry de profundis, out of the deep. There is a correspondence between the depths of the heart and the heights of heaven, understood not in a physical sense but in the sense of a 'beyond' in relation to the centre.

Certain people are annoyed that I believe in God. But I want people to know that God is present in everything, in the concert hall, in the ocean, on a mountain, even on the underground.

La générosité est un geste sans limites que l'âme du monde ressent à chaque instant. La Confession de Massoud

Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.