Quotes About Spirituality

The first tugs towards prohibition were about power, and purity of belief. If you are going to have one God and one Church, you need to stop experiences that make people feel that they can approach God on their own.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

It's not so much what happens in those fifteen minutes—Rachel has come to feel that "you're planting seeds during the meditation, [and] it flowers spontaneously during your day, and your life.

Harmony is next to Godliness

Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure; Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure. Thou dost ever lead Thine own In the love of joys unknown.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Duas almas, oh! moram dentro do meu peito, E aí lutam por um indivisível reino; Uma aspira pela terra, com vontade apaixonada Às íntimas entranhas ainda está ligada. Acima das névoas, a outro aspira, de certeza, Com ardor sagrado por esferas onde reine a pureza

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.