Quotes About Spirituality

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Man is a god in ruins.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The

as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

The Purpose-Guided Universe by Bernard Haisch and You Are the Universe by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos.

Fully-realized human beings—those in harmony with their Source—are complete in themselves. They don't need anything outside themselves to be made whole.

An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.

Transcendentalists believe that our minds are always open to a new inflowing of light and power from the Source. This is called inspiration.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a

Inspiring passion and action—this is the test of true preaching. True preaching is practical—concerned with day-to-day living in light of the soul. It's focus is not on the distant past or an imaginary future, but on the here and now.

Lo que queda detrás de nosotros, y lo que queda delante, es poca cosa comparada con lo que queda dentro de nosotros.

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

Clouded and shrouded there doth sit The Infinite embosomed in a man.

the sermon, that most flexible of art forms. Take the form of the sermon and make it your own. Whether you are standing behind a pulpit, in a lecture hall, or in a field, nothing can stop you from speaking the truth according to your life and conscience. The hearts of the people are thirsty for new hope and new revelation.

True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.