Spirituality Quotes
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.
Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.
Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
