Quotes About Spirituality

For townsmen and countrymen alike, the rhythms of the liturgy on the eve of the Reformation remained the rhythms of life itself.

And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, "As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you.

The greatest teacher of all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the secret time and time again: "As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.

Enlightened persons to not allow the sultry urges of the sub-conscious mind to influence the thoughts of their soul. -They condemn selfish urges as irresponsible. And do not regard their sense of responsibility as morbid. Rather they feel that it is a sign of a spiritually healthy mind.

Jesus] is the event of the unity of life and death for the sake of life. Thus he is the event of a still greater selflessness in the midst of such great selfrelatedness. That is how he is God.

Hakikatte kad?nlar, bu alem içinde ba?ka bir alemde ya?arlar. ?çine a?klar?n? ve büyülerini üfledikleri bir alemdir bu. Erkekler biteviye o alemi h?rpalar, y?kar. Kad?nlar ise yeniden üfleyerek nefesleriyle kurarlar o alemi. Kad?nlar, erkekleri de üfleyerek var ederler. Bir erkek, bir kad?n?n nefesi kadard?r; ba?ka hiçbir ?ey de?ildir.

Tanr?ya inan?yorsan?z onun, insan?n kalbine dokunmak için ba?ka ?eyleri de?il sözü seçti?ini bilirsiniz. ?nanm?yorsan?z sözün tanr? gibi s?n?rs?z bir büyüyü yaratacak kadar büyük oldu?unu bilirsiniz

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Ever since I was a little girl, I was taught that my primary purpose was to become a goddess in heaven so that I could multiply an earth. I wanted that. I wanted to become a goddess with my husband... to be eternally pregnant and look down on an earth and say, "That's mine, and all those babies down there, I had!

Buddhism is best understood as a philosophy rather than a religion due to the fact that the Buddhist does not necessarily embrace a God.

The current plethora of psychotherapeutic approaches can offer temporary relief from emotional pain, but they can never meet the deepest need of the human heart. Therefore, all secular counseling approaches fall short of truly meeting a hurting person at the deepest level of their need for God. Secular approaches cannot meet sacred needs.

The vastness of life around us helps eliminate self-centeredness. We are not doing the Vision Quest to make ourselves feel important or to be interesting to our friends but to realize the vastness of the universe and our oneness with it.

Being alone, out somewhere in a remote or semiremote spot on Mother Earth, is the main ingredient of a Vision Quest Ceremony.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."

God is not the source of any form of worship that does not exalt and lift up the name of Jesus!

Actually, reading the Bible was the factor that had the highest correlation with every other factor of discipleship. Now when people ask me, "How do we get people to witness?" "How do we get people to serve others?" or "How do we get people to pray?" I give them the same answer: Get people to read the Bible.

The discipline of prayer actually guards our hearts and minds in Christ.

Fasting is designed to reorient our hearts to God and to reveal our dependency upon him and the complete insufficiency of this world to meet our needs.

Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.

All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.