Quotes About Spirituality

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.

To step into God's will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra.

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

Faith is the receiver of grace

...the power of grace can work great things in the human person, greater than we might have dared to hope...(pg.52 in The Examen Prayer).

The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.

Heaven is inside us, ' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.

Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life" - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.