341 quotes found
“The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.”
“The definition of God as infinite Love was a particularly important theme for [John Duns] Scotus. He disagreed with Anselm, who understood the Incarnation as a necessary payment for sin. He also di...”
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This conce...”
“Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in hi...”
“Men and women often judge what they don't really know.”
“Religion has no power if God is not truly 'dangerous,' but religion also seeks to manage God, and make God safe.The second commandment speaks against the management of God. We cannot help but make ...”
“The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transfo...”
“He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if its silence held the answers to his questions.”
“When everyone disconnects you...Your Lord connects with you.”
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, its not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and...”
“Love is marked by the inward beauty of Christ in your heart and the way you treat others whether they are in your presence or not. A person who is showing Christ-like Love will not say bad things a...”
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.”
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf a...”
“Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go!”
“I am moonlighting for the Buddha.”
“Blessed be the ones that are free that have detached from possessions that can possess Thee.”
“There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see.”
“I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"!”
“Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recog...”
