Quotes about Spirituality
In my case, the attention deficit was all mine. I had moved to the country in order to lie down in more blessed fields, to live closer to the Divine Presence that had held me all my life, but I had once again become so busy caring for the household of God that I neglected the One who had called me there. If I still had plenty of energy for the work, that was because feeding others was still my food. As long as I fed them, I did not feel my hunger pains.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As important as it is to mark the places where we meet God, I worry about what happens when we build a house for God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Because we cannot stand the God-shaped hole inside of us, we try stuffing it full of all sorts of thing, but only God may fill.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Come tell us what is saving your life now.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Greenspan calls this "spiritual bypassing"—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
— Marianne Williamson
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
— Marianne Williamson
What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.
— Max Lucado