Quotes About Spirituality

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

I have nothing against God. It's his fan club to which I take exception.

Look through the Bible and nowhere does Jesus say, "Worship me." His call to us was "follow me." There's a big difference.

the heavens and the earth. In fact, that's the only big difference between Jesus

I am a child of God and therefore do not inherit sickness.

When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

Before the war, a white man named Jonathan Edwards came to Stockbridge to teach my people about sin, but I doubt very much he could see sin in this. You defended yourself against a man who would otherwise have killed you and your friends. Perhaps you feel no regret because your spirit knows you did what was right.

Beyond the gods, beyond all that falsifies and coarsens the world of holiness, beyond all lies and distortion, all twisted divinities and all the abortions of human imagination, there must be something stupendous which is inaccessible to us. Which, by our very failure to capture it, demonstrates how inaccessible it is. Beyond all the sacred clutter the holy thing must exist. That I believe, of that I am certain.

For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words. — Opus paramirum , I:ix

The saints are in heaven, not in wood. — De morbis ex incantationibus et impressionibus

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

Religion is what you sing on Sunday. Your true faith is what you want all week.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

I cannot imagine a spiritual pain deeper than dying with the thought that during my sojourn on earth, I had rarely, if ever, shown up as my true self. And I cannot imagine a spiritual comfort deeper than dying with the knowledge that I had spent my brief time on this planet doing the best I could to be present as myself to my family, my friends, my community, and my world.

Rightly understood, a myth is an effort to tell truths that cannot be told with mere facts or known by the senses and the mind alone, truths that take form only in that integrative place called the heart.

teacher within is not the voice of conscience but of identity and integrity. It speaks not of what ought to be but of what is real for us, of what is true. It says things like, "This is what fits you and this is what doesn't"; "This is who you are and this is who you are not"; "This is what gives you life and this is what kills your spirit—or makes you wish you were dead.

the reality we belong to, the reality we long to know, extends far beyond human beings interacting with one another.