Quotes About Spirituality

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

I've been to all the Dhaams, Tirupati, Shirdi, most of the temples in the Northern belt, but I go there for religious reasons. Pilgrimages are not my idea of fun!

The only reason we go to temples is in the belief that God will solve all our sorrows in life.

To be honest, I'm a very spiritual person - I go to temples regularly, do a puja every morning and I know the Hanuman Chalisa by-heart.

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

TODAY. Repeat to yourself, the first thing upon awakening in the morning and the last thing before going to sleep at night—"My body was made in the image and likeness of God. God first imagined it in its entirety, therefore every cell and bone and tissue is perfect, every organ and muscle performing its proper function. That is the only model of me in Universal Mind. That is the only model of me that my Subconscious Mind knows.

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, A cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and order, A face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

Le piccole cose di ogni giorno, le sue banali mansioni, pensa mentre si prepara ai compiti mattutini, le forniranno tutto ciò di cui ha bisogno, spazio per negare se stessa, una strada per avvicinarla quotidianamente a Dio.

I am reassured to know that the straightness of my grain is not a precondition of usefulness to God. And I am humbled to see that out of the twistedness of my wounds, he designs for me a special place of service.

The downward mobility of the kingdom strikes at the very heart of our earthly strivings.

How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.

She looked at her doctors as if they were all nuts. "it's a pilgrimage,", she said. "It's not supposed to be easy.

I'd classify myself as a Buddhist. I believed that every living thing came from the earth and was to be respected

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent