Quotes About Spirituality

If your God comes to your rescue and gets you out of trouble it is time you started looking for the true God.

Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.

And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?

And you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is repaid a hundred times over and gains eternal life.

Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened? As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning. Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe? To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God, because you "know" about God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.

How can you love someone whom you do not even see?

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

When you see this you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.

All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing to the moon. As we say in the East, "When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger.

To come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

but God would be much happier, according to Jesus Christ, if you were transformed than if you worshipped. He would be much more pleased by your loving than by your adoration.

God is going to be much more pleased by your being transformed into a loving person than by saying, "Lord, Lord.

??c Jesus trò chuy?n vá»›i nh?ng ng??i cùng Ä'inh, Ä'ói nghèo v? nh?ng l? khôn ngoan trong ??i th??ng. Ngài báo Tin M?ng cho h?: l? khôn ngoan ?y chính là dành cho các b?n. NhÆ°ng ai l?ng nghe? Ch?ng ai thèm ?? ý, h? thích ng? mê hÆ¡n.

Ng??i ta không ??t ??n Thiên Chúa b?ng vi?c b? sung thêm cái gì vào linh h?n, nhÆ°ng là b?ng vi?c bá»›t Ä'i. ?? ???c tá»± do, b?n không c?n làm cái gì c?, b?n ch? c?n b? Ä'i má»™t cái gì Ä'ó thôi. Và b?n ???c tá»± do.

O HAPPY FAULT! The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had a curious way of praying to God. "Remember, Lord," he would say, "you need me just as much as I need you. If you did not exist, whom would I pray to? If I did not exist, who would do the praying?" It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

Most priests and religious equate prayer with thinking. That is their downfall.

Seek her patronage and ask for her intercession before you start out on this way.

God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Somebody said about most retreats that we begin them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and we end as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)

En adelante, podrás ir pasando de un momento a otro de la vida plenamente absorto en el presente, llevando contigo tan poca carga del pasado que tu espíritu podría pasar a través del ojo de una aguja; tan escasamente afectado por la preocupación acerca del futuro como las aves del cielo y los lirios del campo. Ya no estarás apegado a ninguna persona o cosa, porque habrás desarrollado el gusto por la sinfonía de la vida.

Charles de Foucauld