Quotes about Spirituality

When Jesus said, I am the way, He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.

We must practice living deeply, loving, and acting with charity if we wish to truly honor Jesus.

When you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful. You radiate your inner peace, warmth, and joy.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

The Kingdom of God is a treasure. Once you have touched that treasure, you know that the things you previously considered to be conditions for your happiness are just obstacles.

People often ask if it is difficult to be a celibate monk or nun, but to practice mindfulness as a monastic is in many ways easier than to practice as a layperson. To refrain from sexual activity altogether is much easier than to have a healthy sexual relationship.

We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.

If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

If you put the Lord first in your life, he takes care of you. He might not take care of you now. But when it comes time to stand before him and be judged according to our works in this world, he is a just God.

It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him.

Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.