Quotes About Spirituality

Nuestra situación es alarmante, es verdad, pero no nos podemos permitir el lujo de tirarnos de los pelos. Esta crisis esconde una bendición, solo tenemos que abrir bien los ojos. En el Antiguo Testamento, Dios se valía del castigo para pedir a su pueblo que volviera a Él, así que no es de extrañar que esté dando un toque de atención similar a una Iglesia y un pueblo cargados de egoísmo, hedonismo y materialismo que le han dado la espalda.

Los medievales, prosigue Lewis, «veían el cosmos como un gran edificio» —quizás como la catedral de Chartres— «que nos sobrecoge con su grandeza y al tiempo nos tranquiliza con su armonía».

el mundo occidental vive como si Dios no existiera», dice. «Creo que es verdad. La fragmentación, el miedo, la desorientación y el ir dando tumbos caracterizan a buena parte de nuestra sociedad».

The genius of Saint Benedict is to find the presence of God in everyday life.

You need to confess him and worship him in such a way that people can see that this world is a lie," says the old pastor. "This is hard, but this is what reveals man as an image of God.

The 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan, a practicing Christian, once said that everyone he knew who lost his faith began by ceasing to pray.

For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian Romano Guardini called man's efforts to "regain his right relation to the truth of things, to the demands of his own deepest self, and finally to God."3

night when I go to bed and every morning when I wake up, I use a method called the Heart Lock-in." "Really? Heart Lock-in?" "Don't knock it until you've tried it." "Okay, okay," I said. "How does it work?" "It can take from five to fifteen minutes, and you need to find a nice quiet spot

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

When we believe we are not where we need to be for spiritual growth, we relegate our daily life to a secondary tier. We energetically pull out of our spiritual life and wait for the appropriate secluded moment in order to fully engage.

Since spirituality must be the noblest undertaking of all, we force it to be the most difficult challenge imaginable, when actually it is extraordinarily simple.

comprobamos que el desarrollo capitalista no conlleva necesariamente -como se creía y como todavía algunos creen- un empobrecimiento material de la población, pero en cambio sí abre nuevos espacios que contribuyen al empobrecimiento cultural y espiritual de la sociedad.

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. (Psalm 32:5)

In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.

during and immediately after the Revolution, a period that Williston Walker (1894, p. 319) described as "the epoch of the lowest spiritual vitality that our churches have ever experienced." Or, to quote Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897, p. 230): "The closing years of the eighteenth century show the lowest low-water mark of the lowest ebb-tide of spiritual life in the history of the American church.

People of Western culture put great value on the level of a man's knowledge but they do not value the level of a man's being and are not ashamed of the low level of their own being. They do not even understand what it means.

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

Contemplation is nothing more than one's whole person being seized by the reality of God's love.

The Holy Spirit uses real people with all their flaws, failures and forgiven sins.

Music is a wonderful example of something that's in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

The soul cannot be recreated and the life remain unchanged.

Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. —James Baldwin

There is...a golden alpine field within each of you, a place where you are bathed in approval, not because of anything particular you have done, but simply because of your own sacred nature. If you had a president who could show you the route to that place, what a difference it would make in your lives, and in the culture of the world!

But, modest though it was, the building had always felt to Paolo like an anteroom of heaven.