“Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 225 of 1176
“Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.”
“I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.”
“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”
“The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.”
“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”
“Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.”
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
“magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it”
“If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.”
“The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”
“Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.”
“Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.”
“All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.”
“There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.”
“Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.”
“The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you”
“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
“If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
“I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.”