Quotes About Spirituality

One of the biggest enemies to prayer is nervous tension.

I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.

Do you think, Madame, that in heaven we will really get to see God face-to-face?" "We might." "What if you're blind?" "I'd expect that if God wants us to see something, we'll see it.

Everyone seems to agree that the world will end soon and the only essential task is to cleanse the besmirchment from one's soul before that day comes.

Together, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they sent their prayers into the room.

Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire.

And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That great shuttles of souls might fly about faded but audible if you listen closely enough?

Marie-Laure imagines the electromagnetic waves traveling into and out of Michel's machine, bending around them, just as Etienne used to describe, except now a thousand times more crisscross the air than when he lived-maybe a million times more. …And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths?...That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough.

A single fruit fly in his wine can send a black thread twisting through his mood that lingers for days. Widow Theodora says that Kalaphates needs compassion, that the remedy to every woe is prayer, and after dark Maria kneels in their cell in front of the icon of Saint Koralia, her lips moving silently, sending devotions up past the beams.

that the remedy to every woe is prayer

We all go back to the mud. Until we rise again in ribbons of light.

We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

Our motto instead is, "Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty." Turn up the noise.

In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy—to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It

The Forum was the city's political, commercial, and legal heart, but it was also its spiritual center, a space more sacred than the city itself.

The lesson we learn early in our lives and too often forget … to listen to the word of God alive in our own souls.…

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

Do geese see God?

At the same time, he was not afraid of being proved wrong. If, after a lifetime of considered reason, he found himself being called to judgement in some sort of starry chamber, he was sure he would be forgiven. From what he understood, God was the forgiving sort.