“The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 222 of 1176
“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.”
“School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.”
“Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.”
“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”
“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.”
“Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. Enquiry is suited to many people in the West, because we are more mental. And it is very direct. So unsparing is its look that nothing can escape.”
“Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.”
“For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.”
“It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.”
“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”
“Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.”
“Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.”
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.”
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
“Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
“Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”