Quotes About Spirituality

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

in between the neighbour who recalls her coming in from a walk on the moors with her face "lit up by a divine light" and the sister who tells us Emily never made a friend in her life, is a space where the little raw soul slips through.

LIII. What is the holiness of conversation? It is to master death.

May god favour you with dreams

I've come to understand the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with the space where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

aH of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it.

What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?

Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.

Man himself, meeked by his Creator, may when taught and tamed, share the divine life.

Russians now say they are Orthodox believers,

For him, the resurrection of the church means the resurrection of Russia.

agrees that the fates of the church and Russia are inextricably intertwined.

So it stands to reason that as we are filled with Him, we will reflect His holiness and purity in who we are, in what we say, and in what we do. As a result, our lives will be in sharp contrast to those around us.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. JOHN 6:44

I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. PSALM 63:4 – 5

God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.

The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. EXODUS 33:11

No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. ISAIAH 6:1

Wounded people need to repent of their sin.

We need to stop focusing on them and ask God to open our eyes to our own faults.

Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. PSALM 73:25

pity parties never result in authentic benefit or blessing; they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. At the very least, these kinds of discussions with others will keep you focused on your hurts instead of focused on your Healer.

God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7