Quotes About Spirituality

Many young Raza activists today are adopting a vision that embraces the strengths of nationalism while shunning its divisiveness. They call it native spirituality, or the natural way, or indigenismo, and see it as that revolutionary worldview we urgently need.

No creo que Dios haga que pasen cosas malas sólo para que la gente pueda crecer espiritualmente.

I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...

We could not have been more firmly dismissed. Emerson bowed in silence, and I felt a certain … well, perhaps embarrassment is the proper word. For the first time I could see the priest's point of view. The strangers had moved into his town, told his people they were wrong, threatened his spiritual authority, and he had no recourse, for the strangers were protected by the government. A way of life centuries old was passing; and he was helpless to prevent it.

It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.

Pass the pills and fancy plants/ Give us this day our daily trance.

That's when I understood deeply that with all my studies of other religions, basically I really am devoted to Jesus. I am not a church-going Christian, not a conventional one by most standards, but in my heart, Jesus is my guru.

The difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude." These words, from the book The Power of Unconditional Love by Ken Keys, Jr., form the overarching sentiment for everything I believe about raising a child with autism, and they come from a man who lived that difference every day.

It was a long time before I came to the realization that it is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself. Even the Son of God had to learn obedience by the things that He suffered . . . And His reward was desolation, crucifixion.

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands

But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it quite comfortably that we're humankind, and not angels.

When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do.

As the heart and health of the leader goes, so goes the ministry.

Yet it puzzled me that no one around me seemed to take God very seriously. We neither believed nor disbelieved. He was our oldest habit.

Alexandra of England. Shackleton carried the Bible in his hand as he left the Endurance

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.