Quotes About Spirituality

I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, "God be merciful to this drinker!"

The dead are alive and the living are buried by them.

aquellos que logran transitar el camino de la sabiduría, sea por la vía de la filosofía o por cualquier otro medio, no necesitan de nada más, incluyendo el dinero.

Tal como lo demuestran todas las tradiciones espirituales y la psicología cognitiva y positiva contemporánea, la mentalidad flexible hace que las personas se sientan más felices y se aproximen más a la sabiduría.

Hay cosas que no están hechas para pensar, sino para vibrar con ellas

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Yet the great "Why?" always at the center of the little "whats" and "hows" that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

Dominican life, hence Dominican prayer, depends on a healthy life of the Chapter.

I think one of the freedoms that can come from healthy Chapter life and flow into a healthy prayer life is the freedom not to observe.

But behind that there is the truth about us and the truth is that most people come to religious life because they need to.

Jesus does not encourage Jews to walk a second mile in order to build up merit in heaven, or to be pious, or to kill the soldier with kindness. He is helping an oppressed people find a way to protest and neutralize an onerous practice despised throughout the empire. He is not giving a nonpolitical message of spiritual world transcendence. He is formulating a worldly spirituality in which the people at the bottom of society or under the thumb of imperial power learn to recover their humanity.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is answerable to God. As

I decided that my life was a gift from God, and my happiness was not dependent upon children, a husband, or any of the other things I had once thought were the source of happiness. It's about being able to accept the bitter and sweet parts of life.~Lois Troyer

As tranquil streams that meet and merge and flow as one to meet the sea, our kindred hearts and minds unite to build a church that shall be free. Marion Franklin Ham, no. 145

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle is actually as overwhelming in effect as the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

to stand in front of some of his drawings or pictures gives a keener and more spiritual pleasure than any other kind of painting.

Baptism is faith in action.

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.