Quotes about Spirituality

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Identity is destiny. If you allow your life to be defined by lies or by people who do not truly know who God created you to be, then you will be robbed of both your true identity and your full destiny. Our identity must come from and be found in the Lord.

you have often said, it is not about religion; it is about a relationship with God.

When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

if the scriptures don't sometimes pierce us like a sword, we're not paying close enough attention.

religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has "problems about how to believe.

It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.

If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.