Quotes About Spirituality

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

The heart of the life of faith in answer to the call of God is a call to a relationship, and a relationship of love.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive.

It wasn't an ordinary sickness. God had killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.

For the first time in my life, I want to bow my head to the heavens.

Everyone wants to lead a peaceful, happy life, but happiness and success aren't measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart.

There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

We are brainwashed into thinking that money is the source of happiness while what we really need to know is that inner peace is something that comes from within.

Prayer will make you one with Jesus, and you can say with Saint Paul, "it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me" (Galatians 2:20).

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God's help in solving his philosophical and scientific problems. And it is also perfectly understandable why the purification of the soul is considered an integral part of the methodology of knowledge.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said: Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah.