Quotes About Spirituality

I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

Each time God gives us a hard lesson He desires also to give us Himself. If we open our hands to receive the lesson we open our hearts to receive Him, and with Himself His vision to see the glory in the surrender, whether of small things like self-esteem and reputation, or bigger things like a career and a home.

In order to be a disciple we must deny ourselves—this is to exercise authority over our own spirit. We must take up the cross—this is to submit to Christ's authority. And we must follow—this is continued obedience. This is the road not to confinement, to bondage, to a stunted or arrested development, but to total personal freedom. It means not death but life, not a narrowly circumscribed life but "abundant" life.

The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

It is not the level of our spirituality that we can depend on. It is God and nothing less than God, for the work is God's and the call is God's and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes, the whole scene, the whole mess, the whole package—our bravery and our cowardice, our love and our selfishness, our strengths and our weaknesses.

So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

The Lord did not say we should not use repetition. He said we should not use vain repetition. A prayer prayed from the heart of the child to the Father is never vain.

Ó Cristo, ele é a fonte, doce e profundo manancial de amor...

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

Holiness presupposes constant growth through an ongoing relationship with the One who has called us to be holy.

A Bíblia não explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa satisfação intelectual, mas explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa obediência e, portanto, para a satisfação de Deus.

Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

It is natural indeed. However it's not the only thing God has in mind for us. We are not meant to live merely by what is natural. We need to learn to live by the supernatural. Ordinary fare will not fill the emptiness in our hearts...

God calls me. In a deeper sense than any other species of earthbound creature, I am called. And in a deeper sense I am free, for I can ignore the call.

But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you. We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist. There will always be someone to help you with this transition.

L'amour est notre expérience du divin, de la sainteté sacrée. Il est la richesse qui se trouve autour de nous. C'est à nous de le prendre.

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

La muerte no es algo que haya que temer. De hecho, puede ser la experiencia más increíble de la vida. Sólo depende de cómo se vive la vida en el presente. Y lo único que importa es el amor.»