Quotes About Spirituality

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

I've ventured into my past life and have experienced it. What I was in the previous life and why I've taken birth in this world, I believe in all of this because I've seen it on my own.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.

I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

It's very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

My father was a priest, so it was natural for us to read the 'Ramayana' and inculcate its values in our life.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.