Quotes Tagged "spirituality"

Your physical position does not determine your spiritual condition. Through faith, our spiritual position determines our physical condition!

Whenever i find myself losing faith in humanity, i come back to the classical music. They are a great reminder that we are also able to produce beautiful things made out of strong and barely controllable emotions.

Just as Jesus performed what in his culture was the work of a slave, so we in our cultures must regard no task too menial or degrading to undertake.

Only if we share Christ's death on earth will we share his life in heaven.

Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

In God’s providence we have four gospels! For Jesus Christ is too great and glorious a person to be captured by one author or one perspective.

Souls are won for Christ by tears and sweat and pain, especially in prayer and in sacrificial personal friendship.

If you have faith in all the trinities and apostles in the world, and still have no faith in yourself, there is no salvation for you.

A belief is your brain’s self-maintenance mechanism.

For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest.

... My dry heart soaks in a dance of raindrops Absorbs the water and inhales the smell I am back from heaven and content I live, I love, I laugh…again (Excerpted from Healed by rain, chapter Resilience)

The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail.

The essence of discipleship is union with Christ, which means identification with him in both his sufferings and his glory.

But if you are not careful, spirituality can quite easily allow you to bypass the human dilemma, because spirituality can be anything you want it to be, whereas faith will challenge you. It’s not so comfortable. It carries with it the undeniable tension between your search for security and the limits of your ability to know. Faith keeps your spiritual quest relevant and connected to the heart of the human predicament.

The initial function of spirituality emerged from questioning the human condition and also from deep experiences of wonder. The word religion itself, initially meaning to “reconnect,” seems to have come from direct experiences of something larger than just a set of fixed ideas. It marked a return to something essential that we just failed to recognize in the myopia of our everyday lives. How curious that we turn experiences of awe into dogmas and stagnant ideas. That we have come to associate faith with fundamentalism, blindness, and even terrorism gives us something important to look at.

We are not under law as a way of salvation but as a guide to conduct. 

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.' [Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Your life is your spiritual path. It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.