Quotes About Spirituality

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.

We cannot stand long in the majesty of God, with all his vast glory shining upon us, without realizing our abject need of deep repentance.

The Bible insists that man started at the heights, at the zenith point with creation, a companion of God himself, and has fallen so far down that he is utterly unable to even glimpse the heights to which he once attained. The Fall was complete, and as the face of God became a fading memory in the lives of men, their lifespan quickly became shorter, their tempers larger, their hands ever more bloody, and they were forever doomed to become mere empty shells of what God had made them.

The road of righteousness starts with faith.

There is nothing more tragic in my mind than to see the Christian with arrested development. He knows Christ, he knows the power of God, and he has the power of the Spirit living within him, yet he remains an infant. He is like the seed that Jesus talked about, that fell into the ground, sprouted, but is choked out by the cares of this world.

Conversion is a god-thing, but ought we not give God a bit of time to reveal his majesty?

The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.

The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.

Death is a portal into that greater reality that can already be glimpsed in this world as an imaginative experience of the Otherworld.

Each of us is an individual manifestation of the collective world-soul … we are also and paradoxically contained by the world-soul, like droplets in the ocean.

The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.

Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.

The task of the human soul is simply to return from its exile in our shadowy, less-than-real material world to an ecstatic union with the One Source of all reality.

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

The soul needs feeding - where "feeding" signifies heeding.

We cultivate soul by seeking depth, interiority, and connectedness - in short, by exercising imagination.

When we pray the Psalter, then, the words are not spoken in our own voice. We put on, rather, what St. Paul called "the mind of Christ.

God is more interested in the success of our character than the success of our circumstances.

Many of us are busy "doing" but are not keeping our personal relationship with God in tune.

THE BIBLE TELLS US, "Go and make disciples … baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). Sometimes we get this confused with, "Go and make workers … browbeating them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

A heart filled with faith, hope, and love leads to a righteous, obedient life.

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." John 3:3

Early Christians thought your soul was in your stomach," I say.