Quotes about Spirituality

To love enemies breaks through the self barrier into divine space.

The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus. Some days you may do pretty well; other days you may flub up.

As the priest and Levite thought they could follow the Torah and not offer aid to the stranded, dying man (Luke 10:25—37), so Isaiah's community thought they could abstain from food and pass by the needs of others on their way to God. Fasting never stands alone. Fasting, if it is genuine, brings us into a communal spirituality because it is a response to the lack of justice in the community.

we need to think about that future more often. I confess I don't. My mind is tied too much to the here and now and not enough to God's future kingdom.

Knowing God's love, knowing God's goodness, and learning to embrace those attributes of God prompt us to pray.

The Psalter is responsible for creating the prayers in the church. It remains the core of all Christian prayers. Whenever we pray with psalms, we are joining the universal Church in prayer.

Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.

If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.

Though Son of God and though entitled to provisions, Jesus didn't let his physical desires dictate decisions.

The first principle of spiritual formation is this: A spiritually formed person loves God and others.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.