Quotes About Spirituality

If he was nothing, or almost nothing, with no idea of where he had come from or where he was going, why he was living or what he was supposed to be doing (the piano only an elusive hint), and if, further, he was buffeted by forces he could not name but which were loneliness, sadness, longing, anger, fear, and spiritual nausea, would he not deeply attend the infinite story of life? Would he not pay the fucking twenty-five cents to get into the cathedral and see the light?

But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

THE PRAYERS REACHED to Heaven from Ashton, from Bacon's Corner, and everywhere in between, and it was as if the Lord God was waiting for just this moment, just this particular cry from His people. He began to move His sovereign hand.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

Is God troubled?" And her companion replied: "The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.

Religion suppresses curiosity.

There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple.

Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other. —Proverbs of Muad'Dib

I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it.

For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. — The Gowachin, a BuSab analysis

That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.

Holiness has replaced love in your religion!

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self satisfied.

Svijest onoga koji vjeruje miruje, ne uspijeva se širiti prema van, u neograni?eni, beskrajni svemir.

Možda ja i jesam jedina vjerska svijest u Carstvu, zato što sam istinski sam...pa se zato i ne mogu moliti.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible