Quotes About Spirituality

Your patriarchal blessing will tell you exactly what you need to know in order to be exalted.

God is more interested in making you holy than popular. He is more interested in developing your character than making your life easy.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

Kenda Creasy Dean observed, "The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a do-good, feel-good spirituality that has little to do with the Triune God of Christian tradition and even less to do with loving Jesus Christ enough to follow him into the world."13

Revitalizing a church does not start with a list of how to's, but with a fresh vision of God and His Lordship over the church.

faith is the belief in the great things of the gospel that results from the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit.

The love of every single one of my lives.

We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.

Chepi taught me that all of nature - the sun, the moon, those mountains - all of it knows you from the time you were just an idea. That we're all cells with different purposes, yet we are all connected - existing to serve each other as well as the whole.

I close my eyes and pass through a world where there is only love.

The rebel leader and the priest.

BaÅŸlang?çta hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu. Bu hiçlik, ne boÅŸtu, ne de muÄŸlak: Kendinden baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸeyle adland?r?lamazd?. Tanr? bunun iyi olduÄŸunu gördü. Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyi boÅŸuna yaratmazd?. Hiçlik ona uygun olmaktan ziyade onun için iyiydi: Onu dolduruyordu

La razza umana è cosi fatta che esseri sani di mente sarebbero pronti a sacrificare la loro giovinezza, il loro corpo, i loro amori, i loro amici, la loro felicità e molte altre cose ancora sull'altare di un fantasma chiamato eternità.

Quienes hablan de la riqueza espiritual de los ascetas merecerían sufrir anorexia. No hay mejor escuela de materialismo puro y duro que el ayuno prolongado. Más allá de determinado límite, lo que entendemos por alma se marchita hasta desaparecer. (...) Sería un erro ver en la anorexia una inteligencia propia. Sería bueno que esa evidencia fuera finalmente asumida: la ascesis no enriquece el espíritu. Las privaciones carecen de virtud.

Acaso no basta con tener en la boca un chocolate del bueno no sólo para creer en Dios sino también para sentirse en su presencia? Dios no es el chocolate, es el reencuentro entre el chocolate y un paladar capaz de apreciarlo

l'amour est un grâce, et le grâce est le mystère par excellence

En adelante, sólo vivirás consagraciones. Los momentos que lo merezcan se verán revestidos de un manto de armiño y serán coronados en la catedral de tu cráneo. Tus emociones serán distintas.

Il y a des gens qui pensent ne pas être des mystiques. Ils se trompent. Il suffit d'avoir crevé de soif un moment pour accéder à ce statut. Et l'instant ineffable où l'assoiffé porte à ses lèvres un gobelet d'eau c'est Dieu.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.