Quotes About Spirituality

But here, now, again, this was more than the body, or the mind, or the personality. It wasn't holy, that was a whole other mess, but it was something that could be touched only here.

just another piece of needless God-bothering that wasn't working properly.

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.

me guess. Now you quote from the bible and try to convert me to your religion." "The Creator of all doesn't get as hung up on religion as some people do," said Mathew.

There's many benefits from a good read, just as some must sing a lungful of psalm, or take the bottle down from the shelf.

Los ateos, por lo general, lo son por razones mezquinas —aseveró Voss—. La más mezquina de todas ellas estriba en su propia falta de grandeza espiritual, que les impide concebir la idea de un Poder Divino. Al

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I've watched the Lord press seeds into the sometimes resistant soil of my heart that I might grow out of myself and become more like Him. Sometimes he does the planting alone in the night, when it's just Him and me. But usually God uses others to plant and water the hope that I can do exceedingly more through Christ than I ever dreamed.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. - Gloria

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.

Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God. Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and don't let go. (letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970)

Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Spanish pilgrims travel on Camino de Santiago from monastery to monastery, collecting small medals to attach to their rosary as proof of their steps. I have stacks of Polaroids, each marking my own, that I sometimes spread out like tarots or baseball cards of an imagined celestial team.

Kristus var en värdig man att göra uppror mot, för han var själv upproret personifierat.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. In my sleepy state it occurred to me that if the well was a portal out, there must also be a portal in. There

He had ignored nature and now turned to her for his salvation, and set about to make peace with her, bowing to her mysteries.

All doors are open to the believer.

I commenced with my chores, whistling an oft-forgotten tune, certain that we, as the seasons, prevail and that ten thousand years is yet a blink in the eye of a ringed planet or that of an archangel armed with a sword of glass.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together." His manifesto as an artist.

Free of all expectation or desire, she spun, and was at once the loom, the thread, the strand of gold