Quotes About Spirituality

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

In shamanic traditions, it is invariably specified that spiritual knowledge is not marketable. Certainly, the shaman's work deserves retribution, but, by definition, the sacred is not for sale; the use of this knowledge for the accumulation of personal power is the definition of black magic.

Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy.

The way of the sacred,

Every religion holds forth the promise of either defeating time, escaping time, overcoming time, reissuing time, or denying time altogether. We use our religions as vehicles to enter the state of nirvana, the heavenly kingdom, or the promised land. We come to believe in reincarnation, rebirth, and resurrection as ways of avoiding the inevitability of biological death.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jesus loves you." "Then how come he never calls?

You want me to flash you" I said He nodded vigorously, like I'd asked if he wanted fries with that. "And then you'll pass on?" "That's all I want. So, yeah." I could almost believe that a fourteen-year-old boy could find deep spiritual peace from a pair of boobs.

holy men only know what God reveals to them.

human language is inadequate to the divine praise

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

Buy a Bible!Your guide to eternal life!

Hot dog? Bible? Now that poses a problem! Which is hungrier-my stomach or my soul?

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ.

I believe in the unity of all living things. God is in us and in all that exists." "So, when you eat a carrot, aren't you eating God?

I call writing a sacred profession because I believe God chose the written word to communicate with man.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.