Quotes About Spirituality

My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten times a day - you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it's the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.

The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

I got fascinated with all of this work in terms of spirituality, philosophy, behavioral science when I was around 18 years old. I've been doing this for 14 years, and I've been doing it online for three years.

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.