Quotes About Spirituality

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

Las Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

The tone of his songs was consistently celebratory: "Isn't it grand to be a Christian, isn't it grand?" singers asked one another. Isn't

My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become, as it were, interwoven into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Maybe that's why Heaven is silent and God doesn't speak to man anymore. Heavenly intervention would blow the point spread.

Everyone in California is a Buddhist for fifteen minutes. Then they realize they're not allowed to eat chili dogs and enlightenment starts sounding like a real drag.

It seemed to be going well. You see, a Qliphoth can only possess an imperfect and impure body, one that's sinned. Of course, that describes all humans except maybe for the saints. When I eat a possessed person's sins, their body returns to a pure and holy state. With nowhere left to hide, the Qliphoth is ejected like someone spitting out a watermelon seed.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned." "Then you'll fit in just fine around here," he says.

I guess with Heaven closed to mortals, it's been on my mind. Poor slobs living so-called good lives, praying for Heaven and ending up eyeball-deep in shit with all the other losers." "It sounds like you actually feel sorry for the righteous." "Fuck the righteous. I just don't like con jobs. You angels built Heaven and Hell, but you don't want kids playing on your lawns, so you locked everybody out.

For Dieste, art in general and religious architecture in particular is not a luxury but a basic commodity, like potatoes.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.'" Matthew

Investigate my life, O God . . . See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong.

When I live with God in my heart, my future is to live in the Heart of God.

For ever has it been that Faith and Love allow us to see clearly what we cannot see by eyes alone.

For ever has it been that Faith and Love allow us to see what we cannot see with eyes alone.

For the word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." —CROWFOOT, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.

Get into your heart more of that good Bible. It will give you light.

Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…