Quotes About Spirituality

Community can teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears to hear the fullness of God's word for our lives.

One dwells with God by being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is not. Reality-including one's own-is divine, to be not defied but honored.

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.

It seems ironic to suggest that some of us may be called to build community in our churches, for the church as it was meant to be is a historical archetype of community.

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When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away.

One dwells with God by being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is not.

where conventional education deals with abstract and impersonal facts and theories, an education shaped by Christian spirituality draws us toward incarnate and personal truths...it is embodied in personal terms, the terms of one who said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.

is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek.

si nous extrayions le morceau de vie qui piaffe au fond de chaque être vivant, nous sommes des fantômes en comparaison de ce morceau de vie. Nous sommes des ombres qui se frottent et se rencognent dans l'ombre de nos demeures et sous les draps qui couvrent nos lits, face à cette lumière qui transmigre de vivants en vivants.

you're invigorated with miracle-working ability.

The Word of God is the wisdom of God. It makes no difference how educated you are, how many books you've read, or what you think you know in life, or about life; if you don't have the Word in you, you can't function in the wisdom of God.

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.

Jesus said, "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.

Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.

To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.

are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

Art is my spiritual path.... Art is my prayer, my ritual, my remembrance of the Divine. Art is the way I knit together the beliefs and practices that guide my life.