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Quotes About Spirituality

The ego hates losing – even to God.
~ Richard Rohr
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
~ Richard Rohr
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
~ Richard Rohr
Most is God for to be loved: mickle are heavenly things for to be loved: little, or nought but for need, are earthly things to be loved. Withouten doubt thus every man is turned to Christ whiles nought is desired by him but only Christ.
~ Richard Rolle
the more that sin is seen, the more it is hated, and therefore it is less. Dust particles are in a room before the sun shines, but they only appear then.
~ Richard Sibbes
Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
~ Richard Sibbes
nothing in the world of so good use, as the least dram of grace.
~ Richard Sibbes
Perfect refining is for another world
~ Richard Sibbes
For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By
~ Richard Sibbes
If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?
~ Richard Sibbes
A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves
~ Richard Sibbes
The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.
~ Richard Sibbes
Oh we're a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We've been to the moon and we're still fighting over Jerusalem.
~ Richard Siken
We are all just trying to be holy.
~ Richard Siken
The best part of spirituality is reverence. There are other parts. Some people like to hear the sound of their own voice. If you don't believe in the world it would be stupid to paint it. If you don't believe in God, then who are you talking to?
~ Richard Siken
Let's say that God is the space between two men and the Devil is the space between two men.
~ Richard Siken
And here is the tabernacle reconstructed.
~ Richard Siken
Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.
~ Richard Simmons
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
~ Richard Steele
At death there is only liberation. It is just more chic to see liberation when you are alive." Max Furlaud in a private conversation
~ Richard Sylvester
Are there any poets that write directly about this? Oneness is typing this, Oneness is reading this. People mention Hafiz and Rumi. Non-Duality Press publishes books of poems by Nicholas Czernin, 'Wasteland Words', and by John Astin, 'This Is Always Enough'.
~ Richard Sylvester
The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway
~ Richard Wagamese
that land's my home. That land's my deepest wish, my wildest dream, the only prayer and the only temple i'm ever gonna need.
~ Richard Wagamese
We need mystery," she said. "Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility, grandson, is the foundation of all learning.
~ Richard Wagamese