Quotes About Spirituality

Robert Masello

Saint Anthony the Anchorite?

If you have it within your powers to summon the devil, why not summon angels instead?' Though

The soul," he'd said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, "is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free.

Acaso durmiendo es cuando más cerca estamos de Dios.

In the forest you pray involuntarily, and it's also the only place in the world where God is near; God seems to have created forests so we can pray in them as if in sacred temples; one person prays in one way, another in another, but everyone prays. When you lie beneath a fir tree reading a book, you are praying, if praying is the same as being lost in thought. Let God be where He will, in the forest you can sense Him, and you offer up your little bit of belief with silent rapture.

You must not come to the dark conclusion that everything in the world is hard, false, and wicked. The forest likes you. In its company you will find health and good spirits again, and entertain more lofty and beautiful thoughts.

In the forest you pray involuntarily.

Lady of the Moon, of the fertile Earth and rolling seas! You who are the Maiden, with strong heart and youthful spirit. You who are the Mother, with able body and nurturing spirit. You who are the Crone, with wise mind and compassionate spirit. You who are birth, life, love and death. Descend upon my circle, I pray to witness these rites in your honor!

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

Father in heaven, my Lord and Friend, I gratefully commit this season and the next to Your care. I ask that You fill me with Your Spirit so as I face the inevitable challenges, I do not panic or despair, losing sight of Your faithfulness and steadfast love. I pray this in Your name. Amen.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.

Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.

If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.

People who have failed at Christianity aren't likely to make great Buddhists.

Anna, who has always been devout, knows well that Despair is a mortal sin, and now she knows that it is a luxury, as well.

We come to God in little steps, not in a leap.

I realized that I needed God more than I needed rescuing. I needed to draw closer to Him in the storm more than I needed to be taken out of the storm.

I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

Countless Christians have mouthed these lines in worship for centuries: "Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate…" Look carefully at what separates the birth of Christ from his death. The world's greatest life is reduced to a comma.

you begin to sense the sacredness of your being.

first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.