Quotes About Spirituality

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

The more our life is permeated by God, the simpler it becomes. This simplicity is defined by the inward unity which our life assumes because we no longer seek for any but one end: God. No

pride (superbia) is not only by itself our primal sin: it also inwardly contaminates all intrinsically good dispositions and robs every virtue of its value before God.

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.

When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice.

Just as worn-out clothes can never again be made as new, It's no use seeing a doctor once you're terminally ill; You'll have to go. We humans living on this earth Are like streams and rivers flowing toward the ocean - All living beings are heading for that single destination. Now, like a small bird flying off from a treetop, I, too, will not be here much longer; soon I must move on. – Padampa Sangye

Immerse yourself in the meaning of the teachings, day after day, month after month, and the spiritual qualities of a bodhisattva will develop without difficulty, like honey collecting in the hive as the bees go from flower to flower, gathering nectar.

Tous les bruits de l'univers – le hurlement du vent, le ressac de la mer, le crépitement du feu, les cris des animaux, les chants et les paroles des hommes – sont les vibrations du mantra, le son du dharma spontanément manifesté.

The stronger our devotion, the greater the blessings. But to have no devotion is like hiding oneself in a house with all the doors and shutters closed. The sunlight will never get in.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

Nous devrions moins nous inquiéter de notre apparence physique et chercher davantage à ne pas gaspiller notre vie.

The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome.

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.

The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.