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Quotes About Spirituality

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.
~ Ramakrishna
When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.
~ Richard Blackaby
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
~ Richard Blackaby
Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.
~ Richard Holloway
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
~ Richard Rohr
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
~ Richard Rohr
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
~ Rick Wakeman
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.
~ Robert Duvall
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
~ Robert Thurman
I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.
~ Rumer Godden
Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?
~ Rumi
For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.
~ Russell Wilson
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
~ Samuel Butler
Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.
~ Sheila Walsh
This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.
~ Shriram Sharma
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
~ Simone Weil
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
~ Simone Weil
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
~ Socrates
If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj