Quotes About Spirituality

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

If then all things that grow, nay, our own bodies, are thus bound up with the whole, is not this still truer of our souls? And if our souls are bound up and in contact with God, as being very parts and fragments plucked from Himself, shall He not feel every movement of theirs as though it were His own, and belonging to His own nature?

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God.

If you resist it a whole month, offer God a sacrifice, because the vice begins to weaken from day one, until it is wiped out altogether.

So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?

Desire to become pure, and, once pure, you will be at ease with yourself, and comfortable in the company of God.

I will define him simply as someone set on becoming a god rather than a man.

Act in this way regarding spouses, children, honors, offices, and wealth, and you will become worthy to feast with the gods. More than this—if you abstain from the rich desserts that come your way, passing them on to others, you will become worthy to rule with the gods. This was the way of Diogenes and Heraclitus, and they are now venerated as divine.

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

Limbaji grinned widely and reached for a stone. "But this is what different religions mean," he said, placing the stone on the ground. "God is for all men, he is always the same. There is only one. And all men finally go to the same God." He drew lines toward the stone in the dust. "But there are different roads." From

Dumnezeu e zgarcit. -Sa zicem ca face economie. Ii cunoaste bine pe oameni, de vreme ce el i-a facut. Stie ca cei mai multi nu gandesc, ci se multumesc sa mearga cu turma. Din pricina ca nu cugeta, rumega si tot rumega. Turma e guvernata de instinctul gregar.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

hate is cancer of the soul!

even the righteous man is just a sinner livin in between sins!

If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain

The process of healing is to enlighten your life to the greatness of That Which Is in the universe.

If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. —Tennessee Williams

As long as women are denied the priesthood, we will try to make our own rituals at our own kitchen altars and we will sew our own magical capes at our own sewing machines

God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.