Quotes About Spirituality

Why didn't everyone feel as I did that natural beauty raises the spiritual energy of the world?

If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information but to face sacred moments.

On account of sin, God's image in us has been obscured but not obliterated.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ."2

Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.

You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know him as a necessity.

When we follow Jesus' example and pray like this, one of the things we are asking is that God's sovereign rule might increasingly be established in our hearts and lives.

Archaeologists made a haunting discovery that lends a little weight to this conjecture. Amongst the shells and fish bones of one midden, human fingers had been deliberately placed on seal flippers. This powerful note of identification with the natural world, the association of the fingers and flippers, may point to a sense of an afterlife, one where the souls of the dead swam with the seals in the deeps of the world.

My nose is a bridge between East and West. My little eye is a wink from God.

The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance.

Dreams have always impressed me as spontaneous works of art, produced by the unconscious parts of the psyche with breathtaking clarity. Our dreams are a valid expression of spirituality, for they tell of the life of the soul, as do our waking fantasies, images, and collective myths.

The Bible is not the only means to furnish a mind, but without a book of similar gravity, read with the gravity of the potential believer, it will remain unfurnished.

A minha felicidade ou infelicidade depende da utilidade ou inutilidade da presente existência.

Vivemos, pensamos e operamos — eis o que é positivo. E que morremos, não é menos certo. Mas, deixando a Terra, para onde vamos? Que seremos após a morte? Estaremos melhores ou pior? Existiremos ou não? Ser ou não ser, tal a alternativa.

Serei na vida futura aquilo que eu próprio houver feito de mim nesta vida;

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

Los que hacen bien con ostentación han recibido ya la recompensa"; en efecto, el que busca su glorificación en la tierra por el bien que ha hecho, él mismo se ha pagado; Dios ya no le debe nada; sólo le falta recibir el castigo de su orgullo.

Só ela pode dizer ao homem de onde ele vem, para onde vai, por que está na Terra, e justificar todas as anomalias e todas as aparentes injustiças que a vida apresenta.

Dios Todopoderoso, no me dejéis sucumbir a la tentación que tengo de cometer una falta. Espíritus buenos que me protegéis, desviad de mí este pensamiento malo y dadme fuerza para resistir a la sugestión del mal. Si sucumbo, habré merecido la expiación de mi falta, tanto en esta vida como en la otra, porque soy libre de elegir.

Guardaos de confundir la fe con la presunción. La verdadera fe se aviene con la humildad; el que la posee pone su confianza en Dios más que en sí mismo, porque sabe que, simple instrumento de la voluntad de Dios, nada puede sin El, y por esto los buenos Espíritus vienen en su ayuda. La presunción más bien es orgullo que fe, y el orgullo es siempre castigado, más o menos tarde, por los desengaños y las desgracias que sufre.

De que lhe serve, finalmente, humilhar-se diante de Deus, se, perante os homens, conserva o seu orgulho?

Meu Deus, eu me arrependo, perdoai-me.

La fe, divina aspiración de Dios, despierta todos los nobles instintos que conducen el hombre al bien; es la base de la regeneración.