Quotes About Spirituality

The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

You're real selfish and everything is focused on you and how you feel until you realize there is something missing and that's your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better. ... LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.