Quotes About Spirituality

I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It's a theme that requires prayer and fasting to make it get anywhere. I manage to pray but am a very sloppy faster.

People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go

He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying terror. A feeble cry, a last impossible protest escaped him. But the Holy Ghost, emblazoned in ice instead of fire, continued, implacable, to descend.

And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.

He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.

My dear God, I am impressed with how much I have to be thankful for in a material sense; and in a spiritual sense I have the opportunity of being even more fortunate. But it seems apparent to me that I am not translating this opportunity into fact.

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The

Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there otherwise.

Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God—i.e., they do not become satisfied but more desirous together of the supernatural love in union with God.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus.

Jesus died to redeem you," she said. "I never ast him," he muttered.

Sé fiel a ti mismo, pero avanza hacia arriba, hacia una mayor conciencia y un amor más profundo. En la cima encontrarás junto a ti a otros que han ascendido de un modo similar, pues todo lo que sube, converge»

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

You got a least knowledge, the blind man said. That's enough. You know His name and you're marked. If Jesus has marked you there ain't nothing you can do about it. Them that have knowledge can't swap it for ignorance.

Los dioses no estaban ya, y Cristo no estaba todavía, y de Cicerón a Marco Aurelio hubo un momento único en que el hombre estuvo solo.

esas comparaciones de prometido, esposo, amante celestial y de matrimonio eterno, que se repiten en los sermones, le despertaban en lo hondo del corazón ternezas inesperadas

se retiraban a lugares solitarios para llorar a los pies de Cristo todas las lágrimas de un corazón que la existencia había herido

Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to us in this living Word.

Marilynne Robinson has written that "fear is not a Christian habit of mind.

In other words, the new understanding imparted by the Bible comes from a source lying beyond our ability to frame questions.

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!