Spirituality Quotes

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.

The soul is timeless and nonlocal.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.