Spirituality Quotes

"Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present."

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."

- Geronimo

"I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls."

- Rumi

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every saint has a bee in his halo."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

- Eskimo legend

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

- Lao Tzu

"Nature is the art of God."

- Dante Alighieri

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Pray without ceasing"

- Thessalonians 5:17

"If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand."

- Buddha

"Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."

- St. John Damascene

"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."

- St. Augustine

"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of Containing God's gift of himself."

- Mother Theresa

"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men."

- Kahlil Gibran

".....a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"Pray as you can, not as you can't."

- Dom Chapman

"Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself."

- St. John Vianney

"The whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray."

- Julian of Norwich

"I believe that it is impossible to grasp all the different forms of prayer without great purity of heart and soul. There are as many forms of prayer as there are states of soul. A person pays in a certain manner when cheerful and in another when weighed down by sadness or a sense of hopelessness. When one is flourishing spiritually, prayer is different from when one is oppressed by the extent of one's struggles."

- John Cassian

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

- Cloud of Unknowing

"Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Teresa of Avila

"A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"When all is said and done, you'll believe God is a woman."

"Princess or queen, tomboy or king. You've heard a lot, you've never seen. Mother Earth, Mother Mary rise to the top. Divine feminine, I'm feminine."

"Do not make prayer a monologue...make it a conversation."