Quotes About Spirituality

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Receive the god into your kingdom pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!

BAKKHAI : Holiness is a word I love to hear, it sounds like wings to me, wings brushing the world, grazing my life.

Para mí quiero, antes que un rico, un Pobre que tenga un alma grande.

Love was central to Victorians' sense of self because through it they learned to know not only their partners but themselves. Love was a template for authentic, albeit restrained, expression of their inner self, but it was also a means to attain spiritual perfection, as was made clear by the consistent association of the romantic discourse with the values and metaphors of religion.

Most people are so occupied by the external world that they don't realize that there is a very rich world within themselves. In this stage, we relax, let go, and learn to appreciate that we have an internal universe.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favourites of God and his saints, but I believe that is is one of the special achievements of Grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.