Quotes About Spirituality

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

I wasn't put here to win gold medals or national championships. I've been placed here to be a light for Christ.

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

First and foremost, I live for God now. His plans for me are better than whatever I can think.

The Lord called me to plant a church.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.

The ocean is my church and my playground, and it's where I love to be. It's where I belong.

Playing a sadhu is not easy at all.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.