Quotes About Spirituality

Art is a vehicle that allows us to transcend linear time, to travel backward and forward into personal and transpersonal history, into possibilities that weren't realized and those that might be.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

Tag said solemnly, "You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

We have learned that the need for connection is inherent in consciousness because consciousness is universal connection.

The old woman sang of a time gone ahead, and of those already walking ahead of her on the pathway. Her eyes were reddened as though they bled. And her songs, like the pathways, were interweavings of times and places and of all that breathed between earth and sky.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

You will prosper and be in health as your soul prospers. Your imagination is part of your soul and when it is submitted to God's perspective and will, you will attract what you see.

the exclusive imagining of God as male has deeply wounded women. Our immersion in these images convinced us that we are excluded from the divine, that we are inferior to men, that we are in need of a male savior, and that to name and imagine God in any other way than he has always been known is blasphemy.

The dethronement of a male God was a crucial task on my journey. My imagination, intellect, and vision were freed of the shackles of a lifetime as his words and images were exorcised from my mind, heart and body.

Our search for a God who looks like us begins in our own lives. She will be found there.

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it

Daily scripture reading is like maintaining a healthy diet ... When we read and meditate on the Bible, the Holy Spirit strengthens our faith and nourishes us with a deeper understanding of God's will for our lives. We may not remember everything we read, but our hearts will glow with good health.

God's gifts are the best gifts you will ever receive. Don't put them away in a closet or drawer. Use them every day. Put them on. Wear them. p. 196

The Church would impoverish Herself to the degree that She refused to tap this richness.

Truth doesn't stay hidden. Neither do secrets. One day, to a praying heart, they disclose themselves.

You cannot know how many other miracles one sole miracle begets. She was not a savior. She did not confer salvation. She said we were to be the saviors. She said we know God only through each other. That God is not in us, but between us. That we deliver God to each other, like a flame passed from cupped hand to cupped hand. We bring God to life in each other.

One sees in God only what one worships.

There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception.

And what does God ask of you?" "To fly without wings. To do what seems impossible. To cling to our loves through the rapids of our hates. To know that God charges us with the task of making these miracles. They exist between person and person, as flame goes from candle to candle. To know that all we can know of right or wrong is through the way our acts are revealed in the lives of other people. There is no other way to see God. It is not given to us.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.