Spirituality Quote of the Week

If God finds a soul filled with a lively faith, God pours grace into it in a torrent that, having found an open channel, gushes out exuberantly.

-- Brother Lawrence

Spirituality Quote of the Week

When we put too much emphasis on superficial differences, and on account of them make even small, rigid discriminations, we cannot avoid bringing about additional suffering both for ourselves and others.

-- The Dalai Lama

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Somewhere along the line, I have actually come to believe that a person being herself is beautiful -- that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful.

-- Anne Lamott

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words. They did not carry guns, yet still they were a threat, because there is nothing more powerful than the revelation of one's own soul.

-- Thomas Moore

Spirituality Quote of the Week

God wishes to be known, and is pleased that we should rest in God.

-- Julian of Norwich

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Some people think that prayer or meditation involves only our minds or our hearts. But we also have to pray with our bodies, with our actions in the world.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Spirituality Quote of the Week

After all is said and done, after all our spiritual practices and all the esoteric knowledge that might be acquired, the real measure of soulfulness is simply the degree of our humility, gratitude, patience, and love.

-- Kabir Helminski

Spirituality Quote of the Week

There are two parallel tasks in spiritual life. One is to discover selflessness, and the other is to develop a healthy sense of self. Both sides of that apparent paradox must be fulfilled for us to awaken.

-- Jack Kornfield

Spirituality Quote of the Week

If you want to grow and be free to explore life, you cannot spend your life avoiding the myriad things that might hurt your heart or mind.

-- Michael A. Singer

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Small miracles are all around us. We can find them everywhere -- in our homes, in our daily activities, and, hardest to see, in ourselves.

-- Sue Bender

Spirituality Quote of the Week

The true purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to clear away whatever may block our awareness of that which is God in us. The aim is to get rid of whatever may so distract the mind and encumber the life that we function without this awareness, or as if it were not possible.

-- Howard Thurman

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we "love one another as I have loved you" and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.

-- Cynthia Bourgeault