Quotes About Spirituality

Be seriously cheerful, and cheerfully serious. Religion was never design'd to make our pleasures less. —Isaac Watts

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. – Colossians 2:9

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. – 1 Corinthians 13:12

Billy Sunday said, "If there is no joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. – 2 Corinthians 4:16

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God." – Mark 11:22

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you" (Matthew 6:6).

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. – Genesis 5:24

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. – John 1:16 NIV

For we are His creation—created

We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, in the midst of Your temple.

Dr. Gregory Boyd wrote, "I've become absolutely convinced that remaining aware of God's presence is the single most important task in the life of every follower of Jesus."5

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. – Mark 1:35

When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

As Major Ian Thomas put it, "All there is of God is available to the person who is available to all there is of God."1

Interspersed within those meditations are reflections on issues important for both a spirituality of reconciliation and strategies of reconciliation: memory, healing, forgiveness, truth, and ministry.

Women, and women's experience, are essential to the spirituality and the ministry of reconciliation. Women's endless experience of domination by men in cultures of patriarchy has been a school for thinking about alternatives, for seeing a different way. Since a ministry of reconciliation requires seeing a different way, part of creating communities of reconciliation is the cultivation of ways of living together outside the usual paths of power and domination.

The most important relationship of presence to combat absence will be in the Eucharist.

the need to prioritize prayer, reverence for the Eucharist, the importance of solitude, and the call to immerse oneself in sacred Scripture.

life—"spiritual Alzheimer's": the incremental loss of the ability to be grateful and joyful about the daily gifts of life—no matter what the circumstances of our lives at that moment.

To pray earnestly means praying habitually and continually, like breathing.

Swift-Killer had never hurt so. Her last thought was that Bright had decided to punish her for having the temerity to attempt to talk to God. The automatic protective mechanisms in her body, activated by the lack of body reserves and the shock from the topside burns, suddenly took over. The animal reflexes were turned off, and for the first time in untold generations, a cheela went to sleep.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will make little difference what you have chosen instead.