Spirituality Quotes

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love,Where there is injur...

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you mu...

At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factional...

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for...

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inabilit...

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often prai...

Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost alwa...

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrend...

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: th...

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and...

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the j...

You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will ...

Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young,they linger on as aged cranesaround a fishe...

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want ...

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of ev...

I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was...

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much ...

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The unive...

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experi...

Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lor...

I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to h...

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables whi...

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual i...

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ...

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conce...

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be pr...

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the wi...

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seeme...

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way t...

He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day...

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he...

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm...

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so c...

And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that hi...

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you ...

Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish it...

The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in...

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the ...

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necess...

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilizat...

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my ...

One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notic...

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be ...

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel ...

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, ...

Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowi...

So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if ...

So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colo...

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are...

In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a fr...

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world w...

We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy...

But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is no...

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no oth...

God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the ...

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large s...

Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into ano...

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviola...

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...