Quotes About Spirituality

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

Christian spirituality, the contemplative life, is not about us. It is about God. The great weakness of American spirituality is that it is all about us: fulfilling our potential, getting the blessings of God, expanding our influence, finding our gifts, getting a handle on principles by which we can get an edge over the competition. The more there is of us, the less there is of God. —EUGENE PETERSON

Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit,

On the cross, leadership dies. On the cross, success dies. On the cross, skills die, and excellence dies. All of my strengths—nailed to the cross. All of my weaknesses—nailed to the cross. All of my yearnings for bigger and better, for anything other than Christ himself—nailed to that same cross.

The glorious mystery is that listening for God holds power whether or not anything is heard.

Christian spirituality is not a life project for becoming a better person." —EUGENE PETERSON

Like a short spoon in a tall glass, people's attention simply cannot reach the bottom of our profound longing to be valued. Only God can reach that place because he is the One who created that place.

The Father's work in us does not sleep—though in spiritual winters he retracts all advertisement. And when he does so, he is purifying our faith, strengthening our character, conserving our energy, and preparing us for the future. The sleepy days of winter hide us so that seductive days of summer will not ruin us.

Christian spirituality, the contemplative life, is not about us. It is about God. The great weakness of American spirituality is that it is all about us: fulfilling our potential, getting the blessings of God, expanding our influence, finding our gifts, getting a handle on principles by which we can get an edge over the competition. The more there is of us, the less there is of God.

Brother Lawrence, known for his intimacy with God, wrote, "The foundation of spiritual life, for me, has been a high image of God and a high esteem of God."2

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power.

To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.

Los granos de maíz que están en las mazorcas, las estrellas que nos miran desde el cielo, las pepas que están en los taxos, los pétalos que aparecen en las flores, todo lo que es posible imaginar, hasta las piedras, están vivas, tan vivas como tú y yo.

Het meisje met de leeuwengeest! Je werd leider van je volk, en dat ben je tot je dood gebleven... Je bent de moeder van miljoenen mensen. - Leo