Quotes About Spirituality

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

You have to approach God or whatever is there sideways, at an angle. Through dance or art or, okay, yoga, or breathing practices – something that opens the doorways of the senses, makes you accessible, because God isn't accessible. You are." ? Amy Weintraub, TEMPLE DANCER

You have to approach God or whatever is there sideways, at an angle. Through dance or art or, okay, yoga, or breathing practices – something that opens the doorways of the senses, makes you accessible, because God isn't accessible. You are.

When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.

Holy Week is a time to think about risk, because that's what this whole Passion narrative represents.

During Lent you have the opportunity to think about your life alongside the life of Jesus, inviting inward transformation and then outward action.

More, the name Bethlehem literally means "house of bread.

The star of Bethlehem is not about science; it is about the search for meaning.

Worship at its best is something that engages not just the mind but the body.

one always goes "up" to Jerusalem; one could be on the moon and still go "up" to Jerusalem

mon grand-père m'a dit un jour que les bédouins bénéficiaient de la rente divine

God didn't ask to be prayed or worshiped at church, we did.

God is a force that guides us to our decisions.

And if you believe in God, I think She doesn't work that way either.

I agree that we are blessed.

You have the ability to create your own world. Likewise, you have the ability to create your own wealth, your own health, and to have the people you love by your side. Start co-creating your own world in partnership with Divine Spirit.

As she lived and suffered - was that redundant? - she discovered God in the most unusual places, sensed calm in the most tumultuous times. She had learned her way to and from, but especially through the dark passages of pain and regret. She had discovered how to sit still through the urgency of life.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

en otros términos, quien dice ingestión dice asimilación. En palabras de Meister Eckhart: «el alma se une con Dios como el alimento con el hombre, que así se vuelve ojo en el ojo, oído en el oído; así en Dios el alma deviene Dios»; pues «yo soy lo que me absorbe más que yo mismo».

Les vierges entonnaient le cantique de Zacharie: -- Béni soit le Seigneur, le dieu d'Israël. Brusquement la voix s'arrêta dans leur gorge. Elles avaient vu la face du moine et elles fuyaient d'épouvante en criant: -- Un vampire! un vampire! Il était devenu si hideux qu'en passant la main sur son visage, il sentit sa laideur.

The sadness of churches at night moves me; I feel in them the grandeur of nothingness.

God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.