Quotes About Spirituality

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

We need continuing communication from god. One stream of light is not enough.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.