Quotes About Spirituality

Like his brothers before him, age had robbed Ham of the innocence of his childhood faith. He had exchanged his wide-eyed belief in the Almighty for a pragmatic skepticism of anything he couldn't experience with his senses. Now, when he needed a spiritual pillar to lean on, it wasn't there. Can you show it to me? Noah knelt beside his son to pray.

I'm just some fingers resting lightly on a cursor as it slides magically around a kind of Ouija board.

The Book of Revelation wages war on the reductionism that chokes awe.

The reduction of human experience to the explicable is a desperate act of faith in our power to create reality ("what we cannot explain cannot exist"), but this faith cannot satisfy. Into the vacuum of transcendence created by naturalism and technolatry, New Age spirituality is rushing, promising the experience of mystery and awe turned inward, without the troubling concept of accountability to the Creator.

Lord, please use Your Word to touch the hearts of those with whom opens the eyes of the spiritually blind. Don't let Satan's schemes win out.

Then the living water begins to pour out to others, and they see the power and love of Jesus in His people. He is now able to use us to refresh the world around us.[3]

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

As Stephen Spender put it, "Music is the most powerful of all the idealist drugs except religion.

Life probably does not hand us any more visceral experience of how we mistakenly define ourselves than by means of our physical body. From the day we were born, the message we received from the world was that we are our body. This was the first great lie we were given by means of the collective consciousness of humankind, which has always valued itself from the outside in.

God is both transcendent (beyond us) and immanent (near us).

You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . . . Truly, I prepare you for solitude. —C.G. Jung , The Red Book

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Wisdom begins with reverence for God." No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).

Lord God, I acknowledge that I have sinned against You. I am sorry for this, and I now choose to change my ways—please help me to do so. I gratefully accept Your forgiveness and Spirit in my life. I thank You that I am now Your child. I will serve You for the rest of my life and for eternity. In Jesus's name, amen.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Deo Gratias" = Thanks to God.

During the most challenging, deepest, and darkest phases of life, Prayer helps us to get through. Prayer is our exclusively personalized, most powerful and extremely intimate communication with our Creator, the Supreme Power. She/He will always listen to your Prayer. Keep your Faith strong, especially during those testing periods in life!

Er fragte diese sch? ne Yogini in seinem klaren Traum. "Bist du, die Yogini, ein weiblicher Yogi?" Yogini lächelte ihn an und sagte. "Ich bin mehr als ein weiblicher Yogi, Deodatta. Yogis entfliehen Kultur und Natur. Ich gebiere Kulturen und feiere die Natur. Ich verk? rpere das ganze Spektrum der Weiblichkeit, von der g? ttlichen Mutterschaft bis zur befreiten weiblichen Sexualität."

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. What do my five fingers represent? Yogini smiled at him, and said. Your body, as well as everything in this Universe, is composed of five elements, Deodatta. Your five fingers represent these five elements. Your thumb represents Agni or Fire, Index finger for Vayu or Air, middle finger for Gagan or Space, ring finger for Prithvi or Earth, and little finger for Aap or water.

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. "Can the higher caste people eat the eggs?" Yogini smiled at him, and said. "All humans are born equal. The castes were created by man, not by God. Your caste is defined by your character and what's in your heart, not by what's in your stomach. Eat healthy food that Science teaches, not what those ancient traditions dictate."

Today, I am pleased to share the best knowledge and philosophy for life, from Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna. It is as follows: "The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him. He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga."

Your body is only a garment chosen and worn by your Soul. Have no doubts, but some day your Soul will discard it, and exchange it for a new garment, just like you change your shirts, my friend. Don't fall in love with that temporary garment, and get acquainted with its owner, your Soul.