Quotes about Spirituality

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

I am a faithful companion of Jesus. I probably wasn't when I was 12 or 13 when I was in the convent, but I think having a spiritual side means that you live your life with an open heart, and you embrace things that are difficult, you want people to do well.

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.