Quotes About Spirituality

that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said Father Damien 'A man priest or a woman priest?'... ...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest?

How close the dead are. One song away from the living.

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

For this reason, I have stressed his evangelical Baptism as the passkey that unlocks many mysteries of his life.

Early on, John and Laura must have spotted each other as kindred souls, especially when it came to religion.

Rockefeller devoted a great deal of his spare time to religion.

If it taught anything, it taught us thus early that prayer is a mere empty form of words.

Rockefeller was drawn to the church, not as some nagging duty or obligation but as something deeply refreshing to the soul.

For Pierpont and Fanny, Sundays were devoted to religion.

After all, the devil's work was now sprinkled with holy water.

Sometimes to touch us, God touches someone that's close to us. This is what opens our eyes to the fact there is a higher power than ourselves, whether we call it God or not.

Money can't buy no blessins.

I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

You know, if you ain't poor, you might think it's the folks in them big ole fine brick churches that's doin all the carin and the prayin. I wish you coulda seen all them little circles a'homeless folks with their heads bowed and their eyes closed, whisperin what was on their hearts. Seemed like they didn't have nothin to give, but they was givin what they had, taken the time to knock on God's front door and ask Him to heal this woman that loved them.

Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

Walker grinned. 'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.' 'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.' 'And that isn't holy?

A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

a copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more might we recover if open to it? Perhaps even God.

The Release In those last moments before the platter of salt and dirt lay on his stomach, wax-light had waved across a mute heart, his son waited by the bed. Raised to believe the soul left the body with its last breath, he listened for death's rattle, then pressed his lips like a kiss to his father's lips, and took into his mouth the breath that had given him breath, a life distilled to one stir of air soft as moth wings against palms, held a moment, then let go.

American Presbyterians strove to balance a high view of God with a low view of humanity.