Quotes About Spirituality

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.

For me, religion comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.

Religion is for people afraid of going to hell, Spirituality is for people who have been there.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

St. Irenaeus said, that "man exists in order to see God.

Augustine has defined sin as the "love of self to the neglect of God" and opposes to this the "love of God to the neglect of self

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

Mi s-a p?rut c? am în?eles, înc? din acea perioad?, c? oamenii, evenimentele, istoria sunt întotdeauna ambigui ?i c? acordul spiritelor este arareori altceva decât o neîn?elegere binecuvântat? de zei.

Dear God, I know how far short I fall of focusing on what is truly important. Help me always to remember what is important to You—what's inside rather than outside—and then give me the power through Your Spirit to develop those inward characteristics that please You. In Your name today, Lord, I put on gentleness and kindness and patience and self-control and all the rest. Thank You for what You're accomplishing in my life already. Amen.

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will — I see God everywhere!

I long to see Christ's life formed in me. I want to become the person God had in mind when He created me.

God is not asking me to number my days to increase my pace but rather to examine my route, not to increase my efficiency but to see where I must make course corrections in heart, character, and actions.

A lifetime is too meager a window to learn Christ and the mysteries of the gospel.

I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.

In space, she kept devising new and barbaric forms for herself, for she sensed intuitively that immobility makes it too easy for God to get you in a good wrestling hold and carry you off. So she danced. While walking. Everywhere.

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It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.