Quotes About Spirituality

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

And the sabbath rang slowlyIn the pebbles of the holy streams.

However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once you have arrived. At the point of total realization, you must abandon Buddhism. The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood.

Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.

Causes and conditions" is just another way of expressing the word "karma." Merit is any karmic activity that takes you closer to the realization of truth, toward love and compassion.

In short, early Homo sapiens had adquired the cognitive ability to enter into a conversation with the gods, just as modern Homo sapiens does today.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him.

Yeah." Gat was silent for a moment. "Do you believe in God?" "Halfway." I tried to think about it seriously. I knew Gat wouldn't settle for a flippant answer. "When things are bad, I'll pray or imagine someone watching over me, listening. Like the first few days after my dad left, I thought about God. For protection. But the rest of the time, I'm trudging along in my everyday life. It's not even slightly spiritual.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him. - Cady

When things are bad, I'll pray or imagine someone watching over me, listening. Like the first few days after my dad left, I thought about God. For protection. But the rest of the time, I'm trudging along in my everyday life. It's not even slightly spiritual.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs:

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

The renewal of the Church will depend on the renewal of our prayer life.

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.