Quotes About Spirituality

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are working for your enlightenment and to aid others in their enlightenment.

Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

He felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, God is for and with me.

All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy.

God speaks to your heart and your heart speaks to you. Tell me what it says.

Contempt for flowers is an offence against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offence in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.

Il emportait un trésor de pieuses pensées, pourlesquelles le contact des folles joies de la mascherata eût été une profanation.

Sainte-Croix, a strange mixture of qualities good and evil, had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when the powers of darkness or of light were to prevail. Maybe, if he had met some angelic soul at this point, he would have been led to God; he encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan.

Apoi ajunse s? se îndoiasc? de inocenÈ›a sa, ceea ce justifica oarecum ideile guvernatorului asupra alienaÈ›iei mintale, în sfârÈ™it, c?zu de la în?lÈ›imea orgoliului È™i se rug?, nu îns? lui Dumnezeu, ci oamenilor. Dumnezeu e ultima instan??. Nenorocitul care ar trebui s? înceap? cu Domnul, nu îÈ™i pune speranÈ›ele în EL, decât dup? ce le-a epuizat pe toate celelalte.

Danaro e santita, Meta della meta.

To despise flowers is to offend God. The more beautiful the flower is, the more does one offend God in despising it. The tulip is the most beautiful of all flowers. Therefore, he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure.

God alone knows what is going on within the hearts of men.

Si Dios es el médico supremo de los males del alma, la naturaleza es el remedio soberano.

Moi, j'ai déjà prévenu Ronsard de venir me rejoindre; et là, tous les deux loin du bruit, loin du monde, loin des méchants, sous nos grands bois, aux bords de la rivière, au murmure des ruisseaux, nous parlerons des choses de Dieu, seule compensation qu'il y ait en ce monde aux choses des hommes.

Ni-l închipuim pe Dumnezeu, dar simÈ›im dragostea; nu cumva dragostea este singurul, unicul È™i adev?ratul Dumnezeu?

A Christian does not walk on tombs.

Man springs out of nothing, crosses time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God; he is seen but for a moment, staggering on the verge of the two abysses, and there he is lost.

Indeed, to sacrifice seems as natural to man as to pray; the one indicates what he feels about himself, the other what he feels about God. The one means a felt need of propitiation, the other a felt sense of dependence.