Quotes about Spirituality

For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

When genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest.

Life can be difficult, so have fun whenever you can to the glory of God.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

Our relationship with God and relationship with others are two sides of the same coin.

In neglecting our intense emotions, we are false to ourselves and lose a wonderful opportunity to know God. We forget that change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God.

Each of us needs an opportunity to be alone and silent, or even, indeed, to find space in the day or in the week, just to reflect and to listen to the voice of God that speaks deep within us. . . . In fact, our search for God is only our response to his search for us. He knocks at our door, but for many people, their lives are too preoccupied for them to be able to hear. — Cardinal Basil Hume