Quotes about Spirituality

I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is. I have done things but neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old Marster will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

Every man will be equal there and it will be taken from them that have and give to them that have not by the Lord. But

Bir gün Cora'yla konuÅŸuyordum. Dua etti benim için, günah? göremediÄŸimi san?yordu, benim de diz çöküp dua etmemi istedi, çünkü günah? kelimeler olarak görenlerin gözünde kurtuluÅŸ da kelimelerdir yaln?zca.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love, the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.