Quotes About Spirituality

specifically The Seven Storey Mountain and No Man Is An Island that led me to where I am today and helped me become the person I was meant to be.

Merton said many times that when it comes to spirituality, experience is the place to start.

His whole life was a quest for freedom—the freedom to be open to the wonderful reality that God has made, to God himself, to what is!

Few people have "heard" God's voice in a physical way (that is, few sane people).

Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.

Our souls recognize God because they were created by God.

how do I find God?

But Ignatian spirituality is so capacious that even an introduction will touch upon a broad spectrum of topics: making good choices, finding meaningful work, being a good friend, living simply, wondering about suffering, deepening your prayer, striving to be a better person, and learning to love.

Before you begin, as in all prayer, remind yourself that you're in God's presence, and ask God to help you with your prayer.

God wants to be with you. God desires to be with you. What's more, God desires a relationship with you.

Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Let the Great Shepherd lead; and by winding ways not without green pastures and still waters, we shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

When we play religion we find our minds and hearts emptied, for a moment, of secular images as we paint a world of angels, Gods and Saviors.

Any symbol system that does not encourage a transcendence becomes a prison.