Top 100 Quotes About God And Spirituality
#1. When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.
Edward T. Welch
#2. It is time, and long past time, to reread the gospels as what we can only call political theology - not because they are not after all about God and spirituality and new birth and holiness and all the rest, but precisely because they are.
N. T. Wright
#3. Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.
Marcelo Gleiser
#5. The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
Fethullah Gulen
#6. How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?
Katherine Reay
#7. I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
Donald Miller
#8. We live, move, breathe, and having our being in the Love-Light of God
Gary Eby
#9. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.
Saurabh Sharma
#10. God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!
Pedro Okoro
#11. Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Karl Rahner
#13. Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
Mark Batterson
#14. It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
Peter Kreeft
#15. Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
C.S. Lewis
#16. I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.
Bob Dylan
#17. Nature is also God's way of communicating with us. Jesus himself used nature to teach us about God. He used birds and flowers, the weather, precious stones ... Looking at nature, we can come to understand God himself.
Adelina St. Clair
#19. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#22. Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.
Gary Hopkins
#23. Is our rational and self-reliant generation really supposed to accept the idea that God the Almighty not only created the universe but, interestingly enough, also has a stake in our lives?
Gudjon Bergmann
#24. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.
John Granger
#26. Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.
Deepak Chopra
#27. Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.
Donald Miller
#29. It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
Elisabeth Elliot
#30. The word "inevitable" is fearful to the ego, but joyous to the spirit. God is inevitable, and you cannot avoid Him any more than He can avoid you.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#31. I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
Amber Tamblyn
#33. People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.
Echo Bodine
#34. If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.
Brandan Roberston
#35. We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Peter Kreeft
#36. You are not subject to the systems or structures of this world, you belong to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Glory, Prosperity, Beauty and Honor- where sickness is foreign.
Moroaswi Tumiso Victor
#38. God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes
Carrie Newcomer
#39. God wants us to be happy, because when we are, we are closer to Him. We can hear His direction better in the form of intuition and we can help others as well. So, do what makes you happy.
Sharon Critchfield
#40. And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
Frederick Buechner
#41. I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and twirled and twirled. 'Look,' I said. 'Look.
Rabih Alameddine
#42. Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors".
Robert Uttaro
#43. Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. Brown
#44. Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
Leonardo Boff
#46. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.
Banani Ray
#48. To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.
William Alexander Percy
#49. To follow God, one must be a little "out of their mind" (and "into their Spirit").
Donald L. Hicks
#50. The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.
Michael Spencer
#51. Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him.
Stefan Emunds
#52. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.
Mike Yaconelli
#54. You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
Francis Schaeffer
#55. The glory of God is upon you.
Arise in great might and chase your dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#56. A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another's path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment
Gary Hopkins
#57. We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.
Stefan Emunds
#58. We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
Molly Friedenfeld
#59. And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.
Manu Joseph
#60. Monasticism is not about dogma; it is about God and an authentic spirituality. Its simple truths beckon to be rediscovered.
Paul Wilkes
#61. Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
Joshua Roman
#63. Twin Flame spirituality is very pure.
It seems to be a step above individual spirituality.
I believe that is because the tf is not about oneself, but about God and all of humanity
Sienna McQuillen
#64. Human sin and God's grace are the two poles of Lutheran spirituality. To be sure, these are intrinsic to all of Christianity, but in Lutheranism they are both heightened. They are resolved in the principle by which, it is said, the church stands or falls: justification by grace through faith.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#65. People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.
Sulak Sivaraksa
#66. define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at the world in an incarnational way Seeking freedom and detachment
James Martin
#68. What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.
James Luther Adams
#70. God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
#71. I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.
Elvia Alvarado
#72. To discover where God lives and how easily accessible He is to you is to be transformed from a life of daunting challenges and hopelessness to a life of boundless possibilities.
H. Dele Davies
#73. Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.
Marianne Williamson
#74. For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#75. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
Mother Teresa
#76. The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
Peter Rollins
#77. Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.
Rob Bell
#78. MODERN PARENTS OF TWENTY FIRST CENTURY NEEDS SPIRITUAL BRAIN WASH WITH GREAT CLASSIC LITERATURE ACROSS THE GLOBE FIRST. NATURALLY,RESULTING OUR FUTURE GLOBAL DIRECORS(INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN) WILL RE-DESGN AND RE-DRAFT LIFE DIRECTION SOFT-WARE TO UP GRADE THEIR SOULS GOD SPIRITUALITY NEXT.
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#79. Rigid traditions capture souls
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.
David W. Earle
#80. for Fr Bede, a contemplative lifestyle in which one seeks to deepen one's consciousness of God was much more important than having an articulate and theologically accurate explanation of one's spirituality.
Dion A. Forster
#81. The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
Gary Hopkins
#82. When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#83. The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.
Gary Hopkins
#84. No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.
Donald L. Hicks
#85. There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.
Criss Jami
#86. God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Julian Of Norwich
#87. Every time life calls to us, it is the voice of God and the voice of our very hearts. When we listen, we thrive. When we don't, we do what we must to survive.
Tehya Sky
#88. We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego
Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
#89. It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the "goyim" the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs
Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion
#90. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Peter Kreeft
#91. I define God as ALL. All wisdom, All-wise,
All-loving and All-eternal.
Mitch Kynock
#92. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.
Peter Shepherd
#94. My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black and from Africa.
Francis Mandewah
#95. I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force ... this is my religion of optimism.
Helen Keller
#96. The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form.
Molly Friedenfeld
#97. First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
Agnivesh
#98. Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.
John K. Brown
#99. Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter Kreeft
