Quotes About Spirituality

The saint is first and foremost a being without formal context; the idea of fashion is antipathetic to the idea of sainthood.

If those who 'gain all they can' and 'save all they can,' will likewise 'give all they can,' then the more they will grow in grace.

It doesn't matter what we call your soul, Daddy Moses said, smiling at me. What matters is where it travels and who it uplifts.

art and religion.

THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FREEDOM is a journey that goes on and on (although confoundingly, in the Scientology metaphor, one moves "higher and higher"—up the Bridge rather than across it).

Never have I felt so keenly the danger of new religious movements and the damage that is done to people who are lured into such groups, not out of weakness in character, but through their deisre to do good and live meaningful lives.

keep a person on the Scientology path," Hubbard once told one of his associates, "feed him a mystery sandwich.

By now night had fully occupied the sky, which was splattered with stars that seemed merely a few feet away. I can see why religions are born in the desert, Henry said. Yes, we have this problem, Majid said. God is always on top of us.

The insights that freed Jud were similar to the ones that led to my own recovery from spiritual workaholism after being confronted by my boss years ago. I came to realize that God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God. I could stop working like a slave to justify myself; I just needed to recognize — and celebrate — my adoption as God's child.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Sharon Dirckx concluye su libro de esta manera: «Si usted es solo su cerebro, entonces fue hecho solo para este mundo, por lo que el único lema para vivir es que viva bien y aproveche al máximo la vida mientras la tenga. El cristianismo dice que usted es más que su cerebro: está hecho para la eternidad. De una forma u otra, habrá conciencia

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING

while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

Nothing is more fulfilling than seeing ordinary people turned into extraordinary followers of God, imbued with his Spirit and enabled by his power to make incredible differences in the lives of others.

believe in Jesus on the basis of the historical evidence, but my relationship with Jesus goes way beyond the evidence. I have to put my trust in him and walk with him on a daily basis.

Turn to God for help not as a last resort, but as a first priority.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will. "The Bible says, 'Seek and you shall find.'9 It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him. Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues.

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

People are leaving the church and going back to God.

On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Todo ser humano y toda sociedad es lo que es en virtud de su máxima aspiración. La ciudad, si es sana, aspira no a las leyes que puede deshacer del mismo modo en que las hizo, sino a las leyes no escritas, la ley divina, los dioses de la ciudad. La ciudad debe trascenderse a sí misma. ...El factor más importante concierne a lo que trasciende la ciudad o que es más grande que la ciudad; no concierne a cosas que están simplemente subordinadas a la ciudad.