Quotes about Spirituality

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

she was tempted to give up on God because she couldn't reconcile her doctrine with her deity. She

What do we do when the foolishness of the cross actually makes more sense than the wisdom of the sword?

Nevertheless, because of what is "written on their hearts," we are called to look for God in people and in places where we didn't expect to see God.

I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.

The world is thirsty. All creation is groaning. Christianity as it is has not satisfied the souls of those who hunger for another way of life.

I had become a "believer," but I had no idea what it means to be a follower. People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

Our tools have "advanced," but we haven't advanced spiritually or morally. And so we, normal people, with the tools of destruction and wastefulness available daily for purchase, cannot handle the power.

Over and over, the dying and the lepers would whisper the mystical word namaste in my ear. We really don't have a word like it in English (or even much of a Western conception of it). They explained to me that namaste means "I honor the Holy One who lives in you." I knew I could see God in their eyes. Was it possible that I was becoming a Christian, that in my eyes they could catch a glimpse of the image of my Lover?

promise never to leave us or forsake us. Since we are always in your presence, help us always to keep our eyes fixed upon you that we might follow your lead in the never-ending dance of your life as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.