Quotes about Spirituality

How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

It is not goodness we are called to, but worship.

More than anything else, prayer enables you to see your own heart and brings you into alignment with God's heart.

We trivialize the body in our indulgences. We treat it as a means to other ends. But when death comes, we grasp at it and cling to it because it is all we have left.

We are alone in a world where everything is nothing and we are part of the divine.

You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely think that one side deals with truth and the other with fantasy. Both need the truth, and the elimination of one by the other is not the world in which God intends for us to live.

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality.

Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The