Quotes About Spirituality

Un beneficio de las oraciones que tardan en ser contestadas es la purificación de los motivos. Cuanto más se calienten nuestros sueños en las llamas de la frustración, más se quemarán las impurezas de nuestros motivos.

Es el cuidadoso cultivo de una manera de vivir centrada en Dios, semejante a Cristo, dirigida por el carácter y el sentido común.

Dios quiere y puede concedernos nuestros deseos más profundos que tienen "motivos puros".

I cannot change the world. You cannot change the world. Even prayer alone doesn't change the world. Only God can change the world! However, God uses prayer to change us, and then God uses us to change our world.

What would the church look like if it wasn't contained on a piece of land?

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

You and I, we're not tied to the groundNot falling but rising like rolling around Eyes closed above the rooftops Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (emphasis added). It's not about money; it's about our attitude. God doesn't like it when we worship anything other than Him. He's a jealous God, and if our love of money (or family, or career, or hobbies, or . . . you fill in the blank) gets in the way of our relationship with Him, then we have a problem. He doesn't like that.

She had the opportunity to spend time at Jesus' feet, and, instead, she's doing the dishes. I've done that! I've been so blinded by the work that I've totally missed the real blessing in a situation. That's what we do when we think that money or wealth or possessions or God's favor and blessings come only from our performance.

The day you decide to lock yourself in your prayer closet to spend some quality time with the Lord in prayer — that is the day you will enter Heaven's classroom here on earth with the Holy Spirit as your Teacher.

Our fasting doesn't move God; it moves us to a place where we can receive from God.

Praying in tongues is a priceless gift that God has given us so we can feel rested and refreshed right in the middle of a very imperfect world! Jesus

There are at least four essential elements composing the foundation of the enlightenment process: purification, concentration, effort, and mastery.

The process of purification is based on the idea that our essential nature is already pure, and enlightenment is the inborn condition of life.

Enlightenment does not end with an attainment; it is a continuous unfolding.

Your childhood is the time of life when God desires to build the rooms of the temple in which He wants to live when you are an adult.

Yet few are as deep-rooted and damaging as the habitual tendency to view the sensuous earth as a subordinate space—whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or simply a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded, and explained away.

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

He took, He blessed, He brake, and He gave. These four steps follow in progressive order in the lives of each of His disciples. He takes us into His arms when He saves us. He blesses us with the Holy Spirit. He breaks us at the cross. He gives us to others in ministry. We must experience the breaking of our self-life, however, before He can give us to His body as a ministry gift.

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

When one dies, the energy that is the life force within them does not cease to exist. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changed from one state to another. While we live, that energy is the power source of the body; at death, it is released and becomes the disembodied soul of who we were.

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church—I am convinced of it—a new spiritual springtime. —Pope Benedict XVI

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

The history of Temples teaches us that the people of God have been strong, or weak, in proportion to the faithfulness with which they have attended to their sanctuaries.