Quotes about Spirituality

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

To be a human being is to be one who is fashioned in the image of God, who is the point of reference in all relationships.

Religions that attempt to keep the body sacred while denying the Creator's hand are in the same boat as skeptics who try to protect life while saying it is nothing more than matter.

He wants us to see what it means to live through the lens of the eternal.

Our souls yearn for a wonder that reaches beyond the dimensions of our finite minds, and if we don't allow a wonder toward God, we'll search for it elsewhere, in false gods. . . .The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder. . .and only God is big enough to do that.

His stories are so Eastern

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

So let all goodness draw you nearer and let all goodness flow from you to point others to the Source of all goodness.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1 So said the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.

Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers.