Quotes About Spirituality

How are you treating the people around you? In God's eyes, that's an indicator of your true spiritual condition. For a New Testament perspective, see James 2:14–18.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being.

in articulo mortis

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

Drinking during such an occasion was not simply comforting. More essentially, it proved liberating, as it freed the individual from mundane duties and returned him or her to a primeval state of spiritual solace.

Prayer does not offer a less busy life, but a less busy heart."-Paul Miller Quote Read 1/29/18

I pray daily... for peace.

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us." I take this to mean that we need to take our eyes off what the other person has done to us and look at what we have done to ourselves.

the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

The Big Book says in two places, one of them in italics, that we have ceased fighting anything and anybody.

More than seventy studies on intercessory prayer have shown the same nonlocal energetic connection effects as detected in the cheek cell experiment. One example of such a study was conducted by Dr. Randolph Byrd in San Francisco. It showed that patients undergoing heart surgery who were prayed for by groups scattered around the world did significantly better in their recovery than those who were not prayed for by these groups.9

If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a body has no place to rest. . . . Let another continue this poem.

While listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence.

When there is no place for Zen in the head of our generation, it is in grievous trouble.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

God gave us orifices, God gave us wounds.

Only priests are wise enough to fear, rather than covet, the gifts the gods may give.

To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

the other great refuge from the Devil and his wiles is prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

St. Patrick of Ireland Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ below me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. — St. Patrick of Ireland

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.