44 quotes
“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
— Rumi
"Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason."
— Pope Francis
"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."
— Plato
"No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me."
— John Steinbeck
"Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love."
— John Muir
"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
"How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
— Albert Schweitzer
"God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next"
— Carrie Underwood
"The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven."
— Zhuangzi
"The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it."
— Thomas Merton
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
— Stephen Covey
"...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods."
— Socrates
"You can unlock spiritual things only from within."
— Richard Rohr
"If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light."
— Pope John XXIII
"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."
— Patti Smith
"Honor is the presence of God in man."
— Pat Conroy
"Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one."
— Marianne Williamson
"We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains."
— John Updike