Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco Copy Share Image
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds… — William Law Copy Share Image
By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try… — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image