Quotes About Spirituality

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents.

Through such souls aloneGod stooping shows sufficient of His lightFor us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

And then how I shall lie through centuries,And hear the blessed mutter of the mass,And see God made and eaten all day long,And feel the steady candle flame, and tasteGood strong thick stupefying incense smoke!

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

God is the perfect poet.

The inner child is the gateway to discovering our True Self - to reconnecting with the Great Spirit.

I spent most of my life feeling like I was being punished because I was taught that God was punishing and that I was unworthy and deserved to be punished. I had thrown out those beliefs about God and life on a conscious, intellectual level in my late teens - but in Recovery I was horrified to discover that I was still reacting to life emotionally based on those beliefs.

A "state of Grace" is the condition of being Loved unconditionally by our Creatorwithout having to earn that Love. We are Loved unconditionally by the Great Spirit. What we need to do isto learn to accept that state of Grace.

But we cannot integrate Spiritual Truths into our day-to-day human existence, in a way which allows us to substantially change the dysfunctional behavior patterns that we had to adopt to survive, until we deal with our emotional wounds. Until we deal with the subconscious emotional programming from our childhoods.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,That's a' the learning I desire.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

All places are distant from heaven alike.

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners, not by spiritual and moral aces

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

They want to touch God.

This energy was so powerful that it made him swing from one mood or idea to the opposite—from spirituality to sensuality, from naïveté to craftiness. This daemon, he decided, was a spirit implanted in him at birth and it encompassed his whole being. How he managed this daemon would determine the length of his life and the success of his endeavors.

Los chinos tienen un proverbio: "Cuando el Yang está en su fase ascendente, el Yin nace", lo que traducido a nuestro lenguaje quiere decir que cuando un hombre ha dedicado lo mejor de su vida a los asuntos ordinarios de la sobrevivencia, el Yin o lado emocional de su naturaleza sale a la superficie y reclama sus derechos. Cuando ocurre este periodo, todo lo que antes parecía importante pierde su significación.

Albert Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a sacred gift. He added that the rational mind was a faithful servant. It is paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine. —Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind