Spirituality Quotes

"The thief understood that the Kingdom of Jesus of Nazareth, despised and given over to a shameful death, was not of this world. And it was precisely this Kingdom that the thief now sought: the gates of earthly life were closing after him; opening before him was eternity. He had settled his accounts with life on earth, and now he thought of life eternal. And here, at the threshold of eternity, he began to understand the vanity of earthly glory and earthly kingdoms. He recognized that greatness consists in righteousness, and in the righteous, blamelessly tortured Jesus he saw the King of Righteousness. The thief did not ask Him for glory in an earthly kingdom but for the salvation of his soul."

- St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco

"Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Light-enchanted sunflower, thou/ Who gazest ever true and tender/ On the sun’s revolving splendour."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy."

- Jostein Gaarder

"What god does a sunflower believe in? That’s the god I believe in."

- Marty Rubin

"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."

- Rumi

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."

- Francis Arinze

"Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest."

- Albert Barnes

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

- Alfred Adler

"Let the pure gospel go forth in all its lion-like majesty, and it will soon clear its own way and ease itself of its adversaries."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church."

- John Piper

"I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

- Alan Watts

"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

- Alan Watts

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

- Alan Watts

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

- Alan Watts

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."

- Alan Watts

"God is within her, she will not fall."

"She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future."

"By the grace of God, I am what I am."

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

"Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."

- Unknown

"Declare over yourself: ‘God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.’"

"Satan may roar; but my defender is the Lion of Judah, and He will fight for me!"

"My God’s not dead He’s surely alive, He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion."

"Trying to prove God is like defending a lion. It doesn’t need your help – just unlock the cage."

"The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?"

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning."