Quotes About Spirituality

We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

Devido ao fato de o pecado cegar, Deus estabeleceu o corpo de Cristo para atuar como um instrumento de visão em nossa vida, de tal maneira que podemos nos conhecer com uma profundidade e exatidão que seriam impossíveis se fôssemos deixados à nossa própria sorte.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

The sacred mystery of the ECK lies in the initiation of the Ninth Circle

There is little need of mixing motives; human motives are always mixed, and what matters is what God makes of what the individual does, rather than the motives which lead one to do it.

Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.

God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. HIs goal is not to pamper us physically, but to perfect us spiritually.

I'll keep praying and asking God to reveal something more—if there is more.

grabbed our hands and led us in prayer, asking God for guidance and His healing touch on our bodies.

Grown-ups always seem to be worried about money, or politics, or just stuff that has physical presence. It's like somewhere along the way they lost the ability to think about what's inside them.

Wednesday: Pray for Strangers You See throughout This Day One of the elders said: Just as a bee, wherever she goes, makes honey, so a monk, wherever he goes, if he goes to do the will of God, can always produce the spiritual sweetness of good works.5

Today, spend a little time reading more about the practice of lectio divina. When you feel as though it makes sense to you, look up the key passages for the day in the daily missal, or online. Choose one of these to use for lectio, and then take it to your place of prayer. Because it is a form of meditation, it's important that you give it plenty of quiet, uninterrupted time. Sit here while I go over there and pray. (Mt 26:36)

Abba Poeman] also said, "If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world." The brother asked him what these two things were and he said, "Bodily ease and vainglory."3

the development of a humble heart. In Lent, we are invited to look deeply inside, identify what is impeding our ability to follow Christ along the path of humility, and begin applying antidotes. Early church tradition is rich in the

Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?

The distance grows between our heads and our hearts and we lose our felt connection with the presence of God.

The only difference between a prayer and a curse is the one who stands to profit.

At last she came to the old French houses around St. Louis Cathedral, and sat down on the steps of the cathedral and put herself in the hands of God. Any God, even a Catholic one.

Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.

If you want to become a saint, live to please others, if you want to become a god, live entirely to please yourself.

If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

Se mi accadesse qualcosa, Tatia, non preoccuparti del mio corpo. La mia anima non si riunirà al corpo, né raggiungerà Dio. Volerà subito verso di te, a Lazarevo. Io non voglio stare tra gli eroi, né tra i principi, ma solo accanto alla regina del lago Ilmen. Alexander

There was no Alexander anymore; the man he knew had died and was reborn inside a perfect heart, given to him straight from God, to him and for him.