Quotes About Spirituality

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and cry for help?

Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them - just beneath the wound - lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

Mark Nepo calls "experience greed"—namely, an insidious grasping not so much for material possessions but rather for a seemingly benign cacophony of socially active networks, service opportunities, ecological adventures, community activities, helpful organizations, sacred gatherings, and spiritual experiences.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Commentary: This message confirms the major premise of this book in that the Virgin Mary states she will never come to earth in apparition again. It is one of the most meaningful messages given at Medjugorje.

There are many references to the final illumination in the texts of prophecies past and present. The credibility of the Illumination of the Soul comes from a number of supernatural events. It was allegedly foretold to St. Catherine Laboure in 1830 (at Rue du Bac in Paris, France, the place of the Miraculous medal), to St. Faustina Kowalska in the 1930s (Divine Mercy; Kracow, Poland) and to St. Padre Pio of Italy.

Tears..." Pho-Poh told Mrs. Lim, as if her friend instead had asked the question. "... tears save us from damnation.

The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Most Hindus did not proselytize, but some Vedantic movements and some bhakti sects did.

In any case, whether or not there really is a Hinduism, there certainly are Hindus.

Sita in the Ramayana is an ex-goddess, a human with traces of her former divinity that the story does not erase but largely ignores, whereas Rama is a god in the making, whose moral imperfections leave traces that future generations will scurry to erase. The two meet in passing, like people standing on adjacent escalators, Rama on the way up, Sita on the way down.

The circularity of karma is explicitly set from the time of creation: You must be what you are; you cannot change your qualities.

In the Puranas, there is a cure for everything.

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The liturgical year roots our faith. It grounds the invisible, animating our lives in the visible, tactile world. It is elemental. It drapes flesh on the skeletons of our too-ghostly religiosity. It connects heaven with earth, divine with human. It allows us to access the mysteries of our faith. In its feasts and fasts we taste and see God.