Quotes About Spirituality

may not be perfect as a person, but God is perfect… and if I roll with Him, He will help me become more like Him until it's my time to go.

Joel gives a different take on this. He does not imply that blessing means elimination of obstacles and pain, but rather that God's presence, bringing one through these events, which are a natural concomitant to all human existence, is where blessing really resides.

In the contemplative Christian tradition, to be humiliated is to be returned to the ground of your being.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.

God's greatest gift is to endow human beings with the capacity to perceive - and the create - holiness.

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

but anyway he says that when you read the Bible, the Devil looks back at you through the pages.

The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness.

What did the mystic say to the hot dog vendor?" Sophia's eyebrows pulled together. "I don't know, Isaiah, what did the mystic say?" "Make me one with everything.

Being human, they often confuse the World–soul's intention with their most basic desires.

You may think of God as the timeless, eternal universe of mathematics.

The casket sat in the front of the church, open to all. I didn't look. Whoever was there wan't Jules. Jules was at the ocean now, being a seagull. Dancing. And free.

How can I live so that when someone sees me, they are pointed to Jesus? When I speak, is it the Messiah's truths they hear? How can I live that no power is seen to be mine, no authority, no crown, no glory. It all belongs to him. I am the willing, loving servant, providing hands, feet, voice, eyes, and ears for the Holy Spirit to use." "It is the challenge we all should accept," Alban said slowly. "Once again I am blessed by your words.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within – except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him. Ali

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me. George Foreman

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

Besides helping the person prayed for, it is likely that prayer benefits the person doing the praying. Studies show that regular acts of altruism prolong our lives and improve our own happiness.29 Prayer is good medicine for the person doing the praying as well as the receiver.

Am I a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew? I do not know . . . for Truth has set fire to these words.

The entire universe may be self-aware.