Spirituality Quotes

"The cure for worry is prayer."

- William James

"Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading."

- Marianne Williamson

"Mindfulness of God, or noetic prayer, is superior to all other activities. Indeed, being love for God, it is the chief virtue."

- Gregory of Sinai

"There are times in life when the soul finds comfort only in profound prayer. Would that souls knew how to persevere in prayer at such times. This is very important."

- Faustina Kowalska

"When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live."

- Henri Nouwen

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

- Chiang Kai-shek

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; people can’t live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations."

- Chuck Norris

"We always have need of God. Therefore, we must always pray. The more we pray, the more we please him and the more we obtain."

- Claude de la Colombiere

"Unceasing prayer means to have the mind always turned to God with great love, holding alive our hope in him, having confidence in him whatever we’re doing and whatever happens to us."

- Maximus the Confessor

"My longing for truth was a single prayer."

- Edith Stein

"I would advise those who practice prayer, especially at first, to cultivate the friendship and company of others who are working in the same way. This is a most important things, because we can help one another by our prayers, and all the more so because it may bring us even greater benefits."

- Teresa of Avila

"Prayer is where the action is."

- John Wesley

"Prayer is a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with him."

- Elizabeth Ann Seton

""The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer.""

- Jonathan Edwards

""True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.""

- Charles Spurgeon

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts."

- Mother Teresa

"The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion."

- Isadora Duncan

"The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual –something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground."

- Natalya Makarova

"Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul."

- Alexander Pushkin

"Without dance I cannot feel my soul, hear my heart, or see my dreams."

- Nahara

"When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer."

- Gabrielle Roth

"Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn."

- Sweetpea Tyler

"You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out."

- Martha Graham

"Because angels are sometimes busy elsewhere, God created sisters like you."

- Sal Williams

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

- Jimmy Carter

"Dancers offer us our only earthly chance to catch a glimpse of the angelic host."

"And when they ask you, ‘what is your church?’ you say, ‘I dance.’"

"A sister is God's way of proving He doesn't want us to walk alone."