Quotes about Spirituality

The man who articulate the movements of his inner life, who can give names to his varied experiences, need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering. He is able to create space for Him who heart is greater than his, whose eyes see more than his, and whose hands can heal more than his.

The farther I run away from the place where God dwells, the less I am able to hear the voice that calls me the Beloved, and the less I hear that voice, the more entangled I become in the manipulations and power games of the world.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

A spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.

In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic, life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self, with relentless care to our fellow human beings, and with increasing prayer to our God.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.