Quotes About Spirituality

The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill.

Ah tol yuh t leave them Reds erlone! They don mean no body no good! When men starts t deny Gawd, nothin good kin come from em!

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

Is it odd to picnic at one's mother's grave? To sit up on the cliff and trickle pebbles over the ledge and listen to them bounce until they disappear? To eat an apple, to feel the sun, and to remember her, she who gave so much that it will never diminish? Is it odd to live with ehr in you, to continue to share your days and thoughts with the presence of her loving spirit?

The rich-soil part, the mystery beneath all those reasons, is that I love it. There is an awareness, an addictive alertness, a super-heightened sensitivity that approaches and then becomes a kind of spirituality.

True worship is not trying to see The Lord, but it comes from seeing Him.

So principle number one is 'seek first the kingdom' with every choice. The second is 'forgetting what lies behind, press on toward the mark of the high calling of God." These two will help us make the right choices

You both should feel honored." "Right, very honored," I said. "Always wanted to be possessed!

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away. The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.

Making music was its own sort of divinity.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled. Carter Kane, Chapter 41

may the gods be with you

The afterlife looks different to every soul, he said, depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe. And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife? i asked. Walt gave me a sad look. Then that's what they experience.

Wine is a new drink," Dionysus explained. "But it's more than just a drink. It's a religious experience!

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

If you have ever said, I didn't get anything out of worship today, you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.