Quotes about Spirituality

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

Love is divine only and difficult always.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

She floated near but outside her own body, feeling vague and intense at the same time. Needing nothing. Being what there was.

In the silence that followed, Baby Suggs, holy, offered up to them her great big heart. She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glorybound and pure. She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they could not have it.

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don't study war no more. Lay all that mess down. Sword and shield.

Exactly the way old folks said: not when you call Him; not when you want Him; only when you need Him and right on time.