Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

Our mission at Christmas is not to get stuff for people to open on Christmas morning. It is to be people of hope who let Jesus' light shine through them.

You either humble yourself, or God will do it for you.

The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where

God will not violate another's free will in response to my prayer.

But the tree represents the freedom that God gives human beings to choose God's way or another way. God deemed the ability to choose to be an essential part of human existence.

Christmas is not about how much you buy or what you eat or whom you visit. It is about your willingness to say, with Mary, "Here am I, Lord. Use me according to your will.

We do our best to hear from God, but we are all a bit spiritually hard of hearing. Our own convictions sometimes get intermingled with what we believe God is saying to us. None of us knows everything. We're all shaped by our environment and limited in our understanding. We do our best to hear from God, but we hear God through our individual filters, our preconceived ideas and convictions. This

Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him.

Kto nie dozna? goryczy ni razu, Ten nie dozna s?odyczy w niebie.

So listen to them, heed them. Who never touch the Earth, can never be in Heaven

?y?am na ?wiecie; lecz, ach! nie dla ?wiata! My?l moja, nazbyt skrzydlata, Nigdy na ziemskiej nie spocz??a b?oni.

Kto nie dotkn?? ziemi ni razu, Ten nigdy nie mo?e by? w niebie.

we keep company with Jesus by making space for him through a spiritual discipline. Our part is to offer ourselves lovingly and obediently to God. God then works within us doing what he alone can do. Our desires don't obligate the holy One. God is free to come to us in spiritual disciplines as he wills, not as we demand. But unless we open ourselves to him through spiritual practices, we will miss his coming altogether.

The spiritual journey is a marathon of seasons. Sometimes you can hold your own. Sometimes your side aches, you're hot and you can't get your breath. Spiritual disciplines are intentional ways to keep moving through the seasons. They aren't magical means to an effortless race. The disciplines simply provide us with exercises that keep us open to God and aware of the limits of our endurance.

Studying Scripture can equip, guide and reveal how to live in life-giving ways that deepen our friendship with God and others.

Disciplines done for the wrong reasons actually sabotage transformation and numb us toward God and the truth. When we use spiritual practices to gain secondary things like spiritual cachet, success, approval and respect, we rob the discipline of its God-given grace.

They simply put us in a place where we can begin to notice God and respond to his word to us.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

The concept of time in the Jewish way of thinking is not one of linear flow. Time is a process, in which past, present, and future are bound to each other, not only by cause and effect but also as a harmonization of two motions: progress forward and a countermotion backward, encircling and returning.

The physical world in which we live, the objectively observed universe around us, is only a part of an inconceivably vast system of worlds. Most of these worlds are spiritual in their essence; they are of a different order from our known world.

There can be no greater danger to one laboring to reach a higher spiritual and moral plane than the feeling that he has achieved it. Such feelings of self-satisfaction generally indicate a blurring of the vision of the goal itself.