Quotes About Spirituality

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry and thirsty, and he fed them till our last hour together. It is such comradeships, made of seeing and dreaming, and thinking and laughing together, that make one feel that for those who have shared them there can be no parting.

He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.

Does anything ever happen in heaven?' - Ellen Olenska

If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and fatal passions, were really on the side of the angels, were fighting the battle of the spiritual against the sensual, of conscience against appetite.

Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.

La meditación divina es una poderosa ayuda para engendrar en nosotros un desprecio del mundo y de todas las cosas mundanas

All that is most valuable can be had for nothing. They come as presents from the hand of the Creator, and neither air nor sky, nor beauty, genius, health, or strength, can be bought or sold.

As a Buddhist I was determined to root out all desires, including especially my "sick" desire for other boys and men. Only through ridding myself of all "hankerings" could I achieve nirvana and escape the endless cycle of rebirth. The odd thing is that the transmigration of the soul from one body (old and ailing) into another (a happy baby's) didn't sound so bad—in fact, it was what most Americans longed for.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

If I could feel like myself I'd thank God but I don't feel and never will.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers. ^15

Ambition is a weed of quick and early vegetation in the vineyard of Christ.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean: The world has grown grey from thy breath!

Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy.

Iglesia anglicana.

Los ricos, los de clase media y los pobres se codeaban sin mayor problema, al igual que lo sagrado y lo profano.

Sin is not rational.

The cure for shame will always be found in how we become connected to God.

Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.

When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.

Think about the nature of depression. Life is turned inward. You already have a sense that, for all practical purposes, God is not present. Add to that your relentless condemnation and pervasive self-criticism, which have persuaded you that God doesn't love you. You couldn't be a more obvious spiritual target if you painted a bull's-eye on your chest.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.

The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.