Quotes About Spirituality

I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.

When God made man she was practicing.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Tears are God

The first thing religion invented was a faith in the "Beyond", the After Life …

Dil ko kya ho gaya khuda jane Kyoon hai aisa udas kya jane

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.

I was looking for glimmers of light, but I only wanted to go looking for them in the hills where the dead spirits hung out.

But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles—it was like being a glam-rock roadie for God.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

God is alive, real, and wants to heal you in every aspect of your life where you are hurting.

You yourself can be god. You really are that, in fact. You, yourself, are reality. You, yourself, are buddha. (p. 18)

A buddha is the butterfly that finally emerges from the cocoon of the human life-form. (p. 63)

One thing do I ask of the Lord, it is this that I seek-- that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life -Psalm 27:4

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

One of Barron's maxims is "The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy.

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