Quotes About Spirituality

Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator—until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.

There is thus no objection to the use of the term 'faith' for that function of the soul by which it attains certainty immediately or directly, without the aid of discursive demonstration. This places faith over against demonstration, but not over against knowing.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

Philipose quotes Gandhi: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.

The God who never interferes with drownings or train wrecks likes to peer in on the human experiment at such moments of reckoning, touching the scene with a little celestial light.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Yet it is tough knowing that the only time souls will ever be equal is when we die and meet the Lord.

The sun pressed down on his eyelids, a hot illumination that would soon make him feel drowsy. This must be the way blind people absorbed light into their heads: raising their faces to the sun, to Ra, god of the blind. Everyone needed real light, not just the artificial, thought-up light of the imagination.

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.

for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in moments of ecstasy, often soars across it; poetry unveils it at times with childlike naivete; but science with its hammer and yardstick is often perched at the rim and may, in many cases, contribute nothing at all.

Almost two years had passed once again since his father's death. Hugo remained in the city, pure and strong as a virgin; for the man who harbours a god in his breast will remain untouched by the baseness which the world holds in store.

the "human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason,

Your spirituality can also help you let go of control. You may finally come to the realization that you cannot take responsibility for everything. Feeling that you are part of something greater can help you let go of intrusive thoughts, fears, doubts, and guilt.