Quotes About Spirituality

So when believers are afflicted by the "demon whose name is depression,"17 the best word for this may be oppression rather than possession.

The only way to exact meaning from an otherwise futile existence is to connect yourself by faith to God.

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

It's easier to paint the angel's feet to another masterwork than to discover where the angels live within yourself.

We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

Codependency is when we look outside of ourselves to meet a need that only God Himself can meet in our heart. This is the primary strategy of political

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art.

Maybe God is on the side of the werewolves.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I felt in holy vibration to things around me

I've failed many times to avoid those kinds of temptations. But that's not what the devil was really interested in. What he was trying to do is make me feel apart from God. Now I know that what Satan would like most to take from us is our true knowledge of who we are—which is children of God.5

spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

he had let go of the need to earn God's love

Earth's crammed with heaven; And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. — Elizabeth Baccett Browning

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

we cannot cure our own brokenness nor can we manage it. Unfortunately, the longer we spend around the church the more we tend to ourselves less as sinners and more as people who are "getting it together" avoiding the deep transformation that Christ can only do in us!

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

Asceticism was not necessary for holiness.

scientific naturalism has proven incapable of accounting for a whole range of human experiences, from simple self-awareness to love.

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

Kierkegaard wrote of "eternal consciousness"; the French sociologist Émile Durkheim of "collective consciousness"; the British writer H. G. Wells of a "world brain"; the French philosopher Edouard Le Roy of the "noosphere"—which the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called a "new skin" on the earth.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.