Spirituality Quotes

Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in God, who controls every sacred-event.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Amen” means ‘Yes’, it is done, glory to God!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, grant my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita, the spirit of prayer and the grace to read thy word.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love fuels the existence of a divine being

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The creative force is God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hear talk of that slippery slope, and my heart catches for a beat. But there is the musky truth I'm standing in that I can't deny, and it tastes of so much holy. That old way, the narrow line, I see now that was a slippery, saccharine surface where my soul could gain no purchase. For the first time, my feet feel sure beneath me, and that sense is twining its way up from my ankles, racing toward my knees, my thighs, my secret places, my heart. It's in my blood now, and I can't deny it. I can't deny it. I open my eyes, because I could see even through my clutched-closed lids that the darkness is light, that the blindness has given way to searing vision. I can't deny it.

~ Beth Morey

Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.

~ Emma Mildon

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...

~ Isabella Koldras

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

~ Stephanie Perkins

For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Know that God loves you very, very much. And remind others that they are loved too. If they don’t want to hear that God loves them, then tell them you love them. It will be just as important! Beliefs vary, but love always works!

~ Sean Patrick Brennan

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

~ Elif Shafak

We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...

~ Kehinde Sonola

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

~ Criss Jami

Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one’s faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since heaven is the reward of an earthly existence, doubt becomes the enemy of this reward.

~ David W. Earle

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

~ David W. Earle

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You are guided!

~ Shannon Walbran

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence ofan energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… thatthe molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single forcemoving within all of us.” Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us all. “Mr. Vetra actually found a wayto demonstrate that particles are connected?”“Conclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to Godthan religion itself.

~ Dan Brown

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

~ Charles Hartshorne

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appetite. At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change in position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I'm on a diet I plan to lose Guilt, Fear, Sin, and Doubt then I'll be confident enough to walk about.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.

~ Misty Edwards

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within,You belong with all.

~ Reshan Pillai

I remember a scared, young girl hiding in the guise of arrogance and rebellion. I remember feeling lost in a world where everyone else seemed to have it all figured out. I remember the tears of pain, the rants of anger and the hell that seemed to have swallowed me whole. Although I remember these things, it is now, over a decade later, more like a story that I find hard to believe. Did it all really happen? Even as I write this, my eyes begin to swell. It really did happen. I was that girl. And I’m sorry she had to suffer so. But, that is over now...

~ Karen Michelle Miller

One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

~ Tim Farrington

You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular spiritual path. Raising a challenged child, or caring for a failing parent for years on end, is at least as purgative as donning robes and shaving one's head; to endure a mediocre work situation for the sake of the paycheck that sustains a family demands at least as much in the way of daily surrender to years of pristine silence in a monastery. No one can know in advance how and where the night will come, and what form God's darkness will take.

~ Tim Farrington

The depression was not incapacitating. It made it hard to take a lot of my suburban life seriously, but that was inextricably mingled with a growing consciousness of the larger brutalities of the world. Ethiopian children were starving on the evening news and genocide was mushrooming in Cambodia. Was I truly depressed or just awakening to the First Noble Truth of Buddhism, the insight that samsaric life is misery? My melancholy seemed like simple realism; if you weren't depressed, you obviously didn't know what was going on.

~ Tim Farrington

The greatest and the best Christians when they are physically weak are more prone to an attack of spiritual depression than at any other time and there are great illustrations of this in the Scriptures.

~ Martyn Llyod-Jones

An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

~ Robert Uttaro

Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center’s legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that “only the survivor” can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

~ Robert Uttaro

If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just want you to understand this: You are not to blame. There is nothing you did to make someone hurt you, nor is there anything you could have done differently to prevent or stop it.

~ Robert Uttaro