Quotes about Spirituality

Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.

For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

A sacrament is an action in which the Word of God does something to us through the earthly sign. It is an action in which God gets through to us in a concrete way.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly. "I love you," the voice whispered back.

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.

It just goes to show you that the "R" and the "D" are meaningless - what really matters is whether someone believes in the spirit and unending compassion of the individual, or instead in the destructive power of the collective.

Don't you feel that your scarred heart was made whole the moment you gave your service to Christ?

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.