Quotes About Spirituality

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Knowledge is the food of the soul." —Plato

If I claim that an invisible giant hamster is hovering above me, I'm a lunatic. If I sense the spirit of God hovering above me, I'm simply a spiritual being.

Draw nigh to God and cleanse your hands you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

Death is the final wake-up call.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

La teología, el «estudio de Dios», no es un mero pasatiempo intelectual. Tampoco

Age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

Secondly, I believe the pieces of the puzzle fit together to describe a people who tend to be more individualistic, with a do-it-myself mentality. Cascadians are, for example, less trusting of religious organizations, and place higher value on their own personal religious or spiritual beliefs. Cascadians think that they can make a difference in politics — outside of voting.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

Living and working in the presence of God is essential because what contitutes a truly productive person is the fact that they are labouring under the blessing of God.

A man cannot simultaneously want the salvation of God, and desire to remain in the sin from which God saves.

if the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss record. But the same thing is true of the "classroom program.

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves....that the world is changed.

87. And indeed, We gave Moosa (Moses) the Book and followed him up with a succession of Messengers. And We gave 'Iesa (Jesus), the son of Maryam (Mary), clear signs and supported him with Rooh-ul-Qudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)].

It's the most spiritually empowering thing I know, to look up at the night sky and see Orion rising as the autumn closes in at the last moment, and it's got me through some very hard times. When I had a couple of serious bouts of depression in my life the stars were a big factor in pulling me out. People used to say "What's your spirituality?", and I'd say I don't know, but I found out looking at the stars last night and that's what it was.

The presence of God is never a matter of certainty but always a matter of faith

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

El budismo tibetano denomina "Rigpa" al reino de lo cuántico en potencia, a la conciencia única autorreferencial.