Quotes About Spirituality

The surrender of oneself on the Sabbath is not simply a matter of no activity but of opening oneself to the influence of the higher worlds and thereby receiving the strength for all the days of the week that follow.

Torah is an essence unto itself and everything in it is independent of the world.

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

Prophecy is an abundance that comes to man from without, from a higher source.

The more one becomes identified with the Torah, the more does its significance expand beyond particular circumstance.

A pragmatic examination of the way of life that results from obedience to the Torah shows that in the long run, besides offering considerable freedom in almost every area of endeavor, such obedience lends to every act the quality of ritual and makes it seem a direct link between man and his Maker.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.

God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Het oude geloof zal weer in ere worden hersteld, de geheime kennis van de natuur, van het demonische. We zullen het christelijke vernis afwassen en een religie naar voren brengen die eigen is aan ons ras.

Bread on earth depends upon faith in our Heavenly Father.

Kas gyvendamas nebuvo nusileid?s ? žem?, tas po mirties ne iš karto pataikys ? dang?.

Plenty of Westerners come, though, to pick through its jumble for something off the peg that fits; they do yoga as exercise, which is a bit like walking the stations of the cross as aerobics.

Fun has a sacred dimension.

The minister in our church: He spoke in a way that said there was a rage inside religion.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.