Quotes About Spirituality

I am the Lord thy God.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.

The divine is the experience of being part of one's natural environment, vibrating with its energy, connected to all, without having to erect imaginary boundaries between the self and the other.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Con su evangelio, Lucas ha escrito un libro que pueden leer personas que padecen enfermedades interiores y exteriores, para así experimentar en sí mismas la fuerza curativa y consoladora de las palabras.

21. 12. 2022. Anselm Grun: Živi i rasti 56 str.

Quien alguna vez ha leído con atención estos textos, ya no los podrá olvidar nunca. Estas historias han impactado interiormente a hombres y mujeres a lo largo de los siglos.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

We should all use suspenders to keep our souls from slipping down to our heels.

Once feeling would have been removed, you would have become unable to classify images as beautiful or ugly, pleasurable or painful, tasteful or vulgar, spiritual or earthy. If no feelings were available, you might still be trained, at great effort, to make aesthetic or moral classifications of objects or events. So might a robot, of course.

Modern society has generally 'lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

Her service to others had done more for her spiritual welfare all the outward display of congregational religion, which so is but outward display.

The members of these communities know that they have passed on, and they think that part of their heavenly reward is to continue with their man-made forms of worship.

The great majority of people are sorry for themselves at the physical separation, not happy and glad that their friend has gone to a greater, grander, more beautiful life.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

SERENITY "Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?" "Many." "Give us one." "Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.

When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.