Quotes About Spirituality

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today Have but one purpose; to be given Christ To use to bless the world with miracles. — W, LESSON 353

La humildad es una virtud. La humillación, no. Ser humilde significa permitir que Dios aporte más vida al mundo a través de ti, en vez de ser un peón en la búsqueda de sangre del ego. Dios promueve tu bienestar y hace todo lo posible para promoverlo.

You can take the person out of heaven, but you can't take the heaven out of the person.

Then I realize that even while I was asleep at the wheel of my life, a Higher Power was guiding and caring for me.

Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.

I learned at that time, for an absolute certainty, that I did not believe in an intervening God, since I did not spend one second praying or trying to make a deal with God.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

when you know your Self you too shall be known! You'll be aware that you're the sons and daughters of our living Father. But if you fail to know your own Self you're in hardship and are that hardship.

Anytime you find another alcoholic standing in front of you," he had said, "looking you in the eye and talking about sobriety, consider that God is there, speaking through him or her to you. Or anytime you're sitting in a meeting, consider that God is there. For now, think of God as an acronym for 'Group of Drunks.

The Sun and planets represent the spiritual consciousness in the heaven world ; the signs of the zodiac represent the astral or psychic consciousness ; and the houses of the horoscope as a whole, represent the physical consciousness.

Without downtime, we might not physically die, but we will die psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. In downtime, not only are we making sense of the events of the day, we are making sense of our lives. We are combing through the thousands of hours and days of our lives to find those experiences and thoughts that have personal meaning to us, that speak to us, sometimes in that quiet, whispering voice.

At the beginning of each session, one of us will begin talking about some random idea, another person will chime in or change the subject, and miraculously, after twenty minutes, we find that we have zeroed in on a question that everyone is passionate about. What continues to astonish me is the frequency with which religion slips into the room, unbidden but persistent.

Aku ingin mendekati waktu karena aku ingin mendekati Tuhan.

In our churches and synagogues and mosques, we pray to the everlasting and eternal. Yet, in every nook and cranny, nature screams at the top of her lungs that nothing lasts, that it is all passing away.

Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if he wept also.

We're saints and sinners both, the lot of us, or else there's no saints and no sinners.

There is more to life than the material world. The truth most painful to the heart is that which makes the spirit stronger. And it is the strength of the spirit that will be needed when the physical crisis is over.

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness? Why was it given to one man to have such an awareness of God?

We do what is in us, and why it is in us, that is also a secret. It is Christ in us, crying that men may be succoured and forgiven, even when He Himself is forsaken.

They were silent till the man passed, and then Kumalo said, in all my days I have known no one as you are. And Msimangu said sharply, I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Then he gave himself over to deep and earnest prayer, and after each petition he raised his eyes and looked to the east. And the east lightened and lightened, till he knew that the time was not far off. And when he expected it, he rose to his feet and took off his hat and laid it down on the earth, and clasped his hands before him. And while he stood there the sun rose in the east.

I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.