Quotes About Spirituality

I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.

For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil.

Monotony? Have we not always had the same stars and the same sky above us, changing only in its shades of blue and gray and purple black? And who shall say that such themes are exhausted? Have we not always had love and passion, war and peace, summer and winter and spring and fall with us? And are these things unable longer to impel us to spiritual variations?

The gathering of the souls for birth, The trial by existence named. The obscuration upon earth.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

People requested help with the rituals of solitude, such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation.

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

If our dreams are a reflection of our thoughts, then surely, our life is the foundation of our soul.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

The idea that the early Christian tradition was limited to its Greek and Latin expressions is still widespread. This assumption distorts historical reality and weakens greatly our understanding of the roots of Christian theology and spirituality. In the third and fourth centuries Syriac was the third international language of the church. It served as the major means of communication in the Roman diocese of the East, which included Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.

Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown

Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do ourselves. - Selected

No one is poor who can by prayer open the storehouse of God. -- Louis Paul Lehman

it was Harriet Stowe's practice to rise at 4:30 each morning to see the coming of the dawn, hear the singing of the birds, and to enjoy the over-shadowing presence of her God.

Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails. - Unknown

Addie and Louis sat down in front. She had arranged the funeral and told the minister about Ruth. He hadn't known her at all. She had stopped going to any church because of her feeling about orthodoxy and the childish ways in which churches talked and thought about God.

Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

R?jaus maldel?: ...... (vardas) toks pats tuš?ias, toks pat mylimas, toks pat b?simas Buda.