Quotes About Spirituality

Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

It's not always easy to spot idolatry in ourselves. Until the Holy Spirit brings it to light, we may be unaware how tight a grip something has on us. For that reason, we should pay close attention to anything we're convinced we can't live without.

A veces me embarga la intuición de la profundidad, de que somos más que el mero momento que vivimos y que la carne efímera.

La pena es pura y es sagrada.

Cando penso que te fuches, Negra sombra que me asombras, Ó pé dos meus cabezales Tornas, facéndome mofa. Cando maxino que es ida, No mesmo sol te me amostras, I eres a estrela que brila, I eres o vento que zoa. Si cantan, es ti que cantas, Si choran, es ti que choras, I es o marmurio do río I es a noite i es a aurora. En todo estás e ti es todo, Pra min i en min mesma moras, Nin me abandonarás nunca, Sombra que sempre me asombras.

Christian priests were forced to live celibate for their God, but druids lived to celebrate the joys the goddess gives.

Churches are so nice when they're empty. Like empty streets. You can see their shape.

Porque desde el principio me estabas destinado. Antes de las edades del trigo y de la alondra y aún antes de los peces. Cuando Dios no tenía más que horizontes de ilimitado azul y el universo era una voluntad no pronunciada. Cuando todo yacía en el regazo divino, entremezclado y confundido, yacíamos tú y yo totales, juntos.

I felt urgently in need of some spiritual comfort, and began, at about this time, to send out messages to God. I imagined these feeble communications as minute blips of light, little wriggling glow worms which, unless God had a telescope pointed directly at them, he would be unlikely to notice.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This

a community of the forgiven is about love, accountability, and nurture of one's new life in Christ.

In ancient times, anterior to our history, the temples of the spirit were also outwardly visible; today, because our life has become so unspiritual, they are not to be found in the world visible to external sight; yet they are present spiritually everywhere, and all who seek may find them.

If a man makes his life desolate by losing touch with the unseen, he not only destroys in his inner self something, the decay of which may eventually drive him to despair, but through his weakness he constitutes a hindrance to the evolution of the whole world in which he lives.

The divinity dwelling in man speaks when the soul recognizes itself as an ego." Just as the sentient and intellectual souls live in the outer world, so a third soul-principle is immersed in the divine when the soul becomes conscious of its own nature.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

The student is told to set apart moments in his daily life in which to withdraw into himself, quietly and alone. He is not to occupy himself at such moments with the affairs of his own ego. This would result in the contrary of what is intended. He should rather let his experiences and the messages from the outer world re-echo within his own completely silent self. At such silent moments every flower, every animal, every action will unveil to him secrets undreamt of.

Duchovní vÄ›da v?bec neÃ…â"¢íká: ?lovÄ›k má svou organizací dané meze poznání, nýbrž praví: pro ?lovÄ›ka existují ty svÄ›ty, pro n?ž má orgány vnímání. HovoÃ…â"¢í jen o prostÃ…â"¢edcích, jak do?asné hranice rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢it.

Pro ?lovÄ›ka je dokonce velmi Å¡patné, nem?že-li pÃ…â"¢istupovat k záhadÄ› bytí nejprve citem. Je proto nutné, aby vychovatel mÄ›l pro vÅ¡echny pÃ…â"¢írodní zákony a tajemství svÄ›ta k dispozici podobenství.

Thought must be permeated with feeling; otherwise it will not pass into the realm of soul and it will be stillborn thought.

We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.

Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.