Quotes about Spirituality

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

The ego hates losing — even to God.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

nothing in the world of so good use, as the least dram of grace.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?