Quotes About Spirituality

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

don't believe in God. But I do believe that each of us has some sort of inner dynamic, that we are not always aware of, that guides us in life to witness certain profound things. These profound things change us forever and bring us closer to our ultimate selves.

Only the hopeless love God.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together, and first it'll seem strange, and pretty soon it'll seem strange that you could ever lose someone, or get lost.

I know the gods exist, whether i believe them worth worshipping is an entirely different matter. Brakandaran té Carn

Nobody knows better than I that the gods exist. Whether I believe them worthy of adoration is an entirely different matter.

As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings. When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest.

Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry—our spirits are starving.

prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .

Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying. Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God. Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them. The short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not prevailed with God in a mightier struggle of long continuance.

When you delight in the Lord He becomes the desire of your heart

My grandfather built this chapel so Nan would have someplace to yell at God," Jameson informed me.

2004 film called What the Bleep Do We Know!?

It's as if we have lamps but won't plug them in because our ancestors believed electricity was spirit-made. Having lost belief in spirits, we sit in the dark. There's no need. We have holidays and rituals, crafted like tungsten and glass for glowing. We have poems that buzz with electric charge. Let's plug them in.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do. He could not conceive of coming to this stasis having done nothing else whatever.

Thinking is best after prayer, but will be none the worse for a meal and a glass of wine.

I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.

For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches,but not one wooden leg.