Quotes About Spirituality

Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

No matter what religion people choose to live by, I came to realize that their choice is ultimately what is best for them. The holy wars are what get us into trouble. If people minded their own business as far as religion is concerned and didn't get caught up in saving other people's souls, they just might be able to sace their own souls and bless those around them with their contagious state of euphoria. Indeed, the world needs more love.

The folks who invented Lent—no, it wasn't Jesus's idea—decided that just like Christ's time in the desert, it should last forty days. Actually, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday it's forty-six days, so it looks like the first thing someone ever gave up for Lent was math.

But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!

Sri Ramakrishna said, Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

A visitor asked the old monks at Mount Athos what they did all day and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything.

The Unitarians never kneel. But I want to kneel. Later, I do at home by my bed. The oldest and best of prayers: Mercy.

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

Det, mente hun, var hendes egentlige Væsen, det, som de rette Omgivelser vilde gjøre hende til, og hun drømte tusinde Drømme om hine sollyse Egne og fortæredes af Længsel efter sit rette, rige Jeg, og glemte, hvad der ligger saa nær at glemme, at selv de fagreste Drømme, selv de dybeste Længsler ikke lægger en eneste Tomme til Menneskeaandens Vækst.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

Know that this is the excellence of grace in a Christian, to be fitted for any condition; not only to say, if it were this or that, but if it were any.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wide and fatherly disposition in every condition.

The true foundation of everything truly "prophetic" is the Character and Nature of God.

They had no thought for the meaning of Christmas and had planned to have a wildly merry time.

Music has its own distinctive contribution to make to theology precisely because it is a distinctive human practice.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth.

Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.

In the end, yes, it is a famous bookstore and, yes, it is of no small literary importance. But more than anything, Shakespeare and Company is a refuge, like the church across the river. A place where the owner allows everyone to take what they need and give what they can.