Quotes About Spirituality

My pope is Benedict.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

When I portrayed Shiridi Sai, I changed as a person.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

I think God is the greatest. I know where I came from, and I can still go any second, if I chose that route. But I'm just focusing on positivity right now. That's where 'God Is the Greatest' came from.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.

Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.