Spirituality Quotes

"Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds."

- Eleanor Estes

"If fishing is like religion, then fly fishing is high church."

- Tom Brokaw

"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."

- Norman Fitzroy Maclean

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."

- Galatians 5:22-23a

"In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul."

- Bishop Robert F. Morneau

"Therefore, when you decide to undertake this work of prayer and feel by grace that you are called by God, light up your heart to God with a meek stirring of Love."

- The Anonymous Author of The Cloud of Unknowing

"The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to know God?' but “How am I to let myself be known by God?' And, finally, the question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?' God is looking into the distance for me, trying to find me, and longing to bring me home."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"Dear God, Thank you that you are a loving, gracious God. Thank you that you’ve offered us forgiveness and the gift of new life in you. Thank you that your love is perfect, it never fails, and that nothing can separate us from your love. ... In Jesus' name, Amen."

- Debbie McDaniel

"The kitchen is a sacred space."

- Marc Forgione

"Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities."

- Laura Esquivel

"You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you."

- Tina Turner

"And I feel God in this Chili’s tonight."

- Pam Beesly

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."

- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

"I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us."

- Anne Lamott

"What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.”"

- First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

"“I feel that in the heavens above, the angels whispering to one another can find among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘mother.’”"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men—from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Death — the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

- Sir Walter Scott

"Absence and death are the same, only that in death there is no suffering."

- Theodore Roosevelt

""What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it's Halloween."

"In leap years, magic walks softly alongside time."

""The magic of Christmas is not in the presents but in His presence.""

"Snowflakes are kisses from heaven reminding us that even miracles can be gentle."

"Each unique pattern on a snowflake is God's way of reminding us about our own uniqueness and individuality"

"Snowflakes might be cold but they bring warm messages from above."

"Twin brothers are never truly apart; one lives in heaven while the other carries both hearts here on earth."