Quotes about Spirituality

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.

Anne Wilson Schaef

It seems we are not that free to be honest, or even aware, because most of our garbage is buried in the unconscious. So, it is absolutely essential that we find a spirituality that reaches to that hidden level. If not, nothing really changes.

Jesus is precisely giving us his full bodily humanity more than his spiritualized divinity!

do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage—as if it were God!

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

True worship is not trying to see The Lord, but it comes from seeing Him.

So principle number one is 'seek first the kingdom' with every choice. The second is 'forgetting what lies behind, press on toward the mark of the high calling of God." These two will help us make the right choices