Quotes About Spirituality

Let us earnestly avoid the confusion of ideas which would represent worship as service, instead of joyous preparation for service in daily life, and which too often ends in making of this supposed worship our only service.

Magdala came to the

Holiness doesn't require a halo, folded hands, or an otherworldly preoccupation.

The only language {God} hears is the silent language of love.

When I heard about spiritual direction, I felt as if I was seeing an old friend I had never met. Spiritual direction (this new old friend) led me deeper into the love of God. Spiritual direction helped me experience more intimately the God of love. And spiritual direction equipped me to be in relationship with others where I could love as I was loved.

When God measures a person, He puts the tape around the heart, not around the head. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," Jet said, quoting Emily Dickinson.

Her gift with wild birds allowed her to bring them to her merely by lifting her hand. From a distance, when she ran so fast she was nearly flying, it seemed as if she spoke their language, and was meant for their world more than her own.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.

Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," the

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure they have a reason to be connected to this world.

Should I judge myself?" she ventured to ask. "Or should I leave that to the Almighty, who forgives us all for being what He made us?

Our people believed every creature had a spark—nitzotz—that which was holy, and we were to show kindness and compassion to all beings, what we called baal chayyim. All animals praise God, as we do, with their songs and their voices. In midwinter, we dedicated a Sabbath to the birds, to offer our gratitude and acknowledge that it is their songs that have taught mankind how to chant and praise the glory of our Creator.

In such great works I found enlightenment and came to understand that everything God creates is a miracle, individually and unto itself.

He thought about where it was people went when they died, & how when he squinted he could see Cody, racing back & forth, barking, how his father seemed to stand right there on the riverbank, turning back the bees, closer than he'd ever been before.

That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.

Salvation was mysterious, wasn't that always true?

Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.