Quotes about Spirituality

The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

Perfect spirituality is just to imitate God.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. —Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212—1282)

Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.

It is not God who is violent. We are. It is not that God demands suffering of humans. We do. God does not need or want suffering—neither in Jesus nor in us.

instead of saying that God came into the world through Jesus, maybe it would be better to say that Jesus came out of an already Christ-soaked world. The second Incarnation flowed out of the first, out of God's loving union with physical creation.

experience as "mercy, within mercy, within mercy."6 There's always a lot of anxiety and insecurity in letting go of your current images of yourselves and your images of God.

It is impossible to make individuals feel sacred inside of a profane, empty, or accidental universe.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God.

Through the act of creation, God manifested the eternally outflowing Divine Presence into the physical and material world.

Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

Have you ever noticed that the expression "the light of the world" is used to describe the Christ (John 8:12), but that Jesus also applies the same phrase to us? (Matthew 5:14, "You are the light of the world.")