Quotes About Spirituality

I remembered about the pharma coke, went outside, and nailed a line so pure it was like getting yelled at by God.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us!

The weakest saint can experience the power of the Deity of the Son of God if once he is willing to 'let go.' Any strand of our energy will blur the life of Jesus. We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus." —OSWALD CHAMBERS THE

You must pray.' 'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.' 'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.

joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate.

Without the Lord, the disciple no longer knows who he is.

It is not as though God had no interest in our earthly concerns, but we ought to have even more interest in his.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

All evil was created by God to block out spirituality from the world so that man would be forced to struggle for it and therefore appreciate it more deeply.

One cannot subordinate himself simultaneously to God and to his own idolized self. Thus the Sages say: Whoever becomes angry, [even if he is a prophet] the Devine Presence leaves him. (Pesachim 66b)

God or the mysterious bounty of the world...

The heart is the only book worth reading.

Anyone can build a house of wood and bricks, but the Buddha taught us that sort of home is not our real home. It's a home in the world and it follows the ways of the world. Our real home is inner peace.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

We need panels of gold and lapis, windows of coloured glass and gardens of immaculately raked gravel in order to stay true to the sincerest parts of ourselves.

A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead.

prayer is when night descends over thought

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

I think the genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals, and illuminated manuscripts of the faiths.

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life?

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. "I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.

I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.