Quotes About Spirituality

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

Life is a state of consciousness.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Have you ever thought about letting Cheesus into your Life?

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.