Quotes About Spirituality

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.

Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas

Yo creo en Dios, pero no creo que a Él le importe que la gente sea protestante, católica, musulmana o budista.

Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel.

Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

Por desgracia, Jesús se aparecía a los chicos con imaginaciones febriles, no a hombres sobrios y racionales.

No sentía simpatía por los profesionales de Dios

Aye. But right and wrong don't count much in this world—only in the next.

pilgrimages or crusades. Even a monk must

If she had believed in God, she would have prayed.

Now he stood up, uninvited, and began to pray in a loud voice. "Our Father, bless this food to our foul, corrupt bodies, as full of sin as a dead dog is full of maggots…." Murdo

Si os quedáis en casa, no podéis ir a la iglesia. La santidad es la mejor medicina.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

aspergillum with which he was sprinkling the holy

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

When I die pin me up against the sky.

Nihilism and narcissism are not traits that any leading-edge can actually operate with.

El dios, o la diosa, del capitalismo, del marxismo, del industrialismo, de la ecología profunda, del consumismo o del ecofeminismo es el dios de lo que puede verse con los ojos, percibirse con los sentidos, registrarse con los sentimientos o venerarse con las sensaciones, un dios al que puede hincarse el diente y que se agota en las formas.

the hand of death touches every love that the Descenders profess for all and sundry, tears also streaming down the face with "compassion" written all over it.