Quotes About Spirituality

if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Imagine placing God foremost in your heart each morning and striking out on His path for your day, deliberately living for Him. As you commit yourself to God each day, He will work in your heart!

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...

God is an experience of supreme love.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.