Quotes About Spirituality

WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

Je ne veux pas et Je ne peux pas concevoir un être qui survivrait à la mort de son corps.

Bidden verandert de wereld niet maar bidden verandert de mens en de mens verandert de wereld

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

Jamais considere seus estudos como uma obrigação, mas como uma oportunidade invejável para aprender a conhecer a influência libertadora da beleza do reino do espírito, para seu próprio prazer pessoal e para proveito da comunidade à qual seu futuro trabalho pertencer.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

Ideas come from God.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as "purity of heart" or as the process of becoming "poor in spirit.

Jesus was immeasurably more human than other human beings

Along its walls were endless bibliothekai, a term which originally designated not the room but the shelves or niches for the scrolls. Above the shelves there was an inscription: The place of the cure of the soul.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Then you think there is no God? No, I think there quite probably is one. Then why? … Mustapha Mond checked him. But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now … How does he manifest himself now? asked the Savage. Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.