Quotes About Spirituality

Who are you?" And she, without a moment's hesitation. "I am the soul in limbo.

Respectfully I kiss her lovely teeth and she says, slowly, gravely, the second time a few notes higher than the first: 'Communion takes place in silence...Communion takes place in silence.' This, she explains, is because this kiss leaves her with the impression of something sacred, where her teeth 'substituted for the host.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Odio todo lo que tengo de cielo para mirar, sí, todo lo que alcanzo, porque nunca he podido encontrar en él la parte exacta donde habita Dios.

Te das cuenta, verdad, de que Dios no se parece en nada a tu padre? Eso lo sabes, ¿verdad? Estoy a punto de llevar el coche al arcén. Dios, dice, es lo contrario de tu padre. Dios no está siempre enfadado contigo. Dios no te grita al oído, no te mortifica con tus imperfecciones. Esa voz que oyes continuamente, esa voz airada… Ése no es Dios. Ése sigue siendo tu padre.

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.

But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking light coming off the TV, there is a space, an empty space, between us, around us, inside us, that inevitable, desperate, begs to be filled up. And nothing, not shame, not God, not a new microwave, not a wide-screen TV or that new diet with grapefruits, can ever, ever fill it. Underneath all that white noise there's a lack.

I know a lot of people think that whole God thing is a joke but I just get a feeling he's up there somewhere.

True faith and good education distinguish Germans from white Americans, who come across in May's novels as blasphemous and utterly uneducated. Indeed, it is Old Shatterhand's "Europeanness"—meaning his Germanness in a cultural sense, and not his whiteness in any kind of purely racial category—that constitutes his intellectual and spiritual-religious superiority, distinguishing him not only from the Indians, but also Anglo-Americans:

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

She worked diligently to develop her understanding of breath; for she knew that with breath she could create a world. She imagined herself breathing life into the glass and, with every week that passed, Sei came closer to realizing the loveliness of the objects that she could picture in her imagination.

Forte come la morte è l'amore, tenace come gli Inferi è la passione." La morte separa l'anima dal corpo, ma l'amore separa ogni cosa dall'anima. (Meister Eckhart - Sermone Nascita eterna)

I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.

I was learning it was possible to love more than just God. In fact, I was learning it was better to love more than just God.

I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude, Where everything I touch is turned into prayer:

Let my soul in its journey into you Never rest anywhere.

The alternative to Deism was a more profoundly personal religious experience such as that offered by the revivalism of the Great Awakenings.

You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.

'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.