Spirituality Quote of the Week

Most people lack imagination much more than they lack good will. If someone points out what can be done and what ought to be done, there is usually someone to do it.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

Spirituality Quote of the Week

While it is natural for the mind to doubt, our doubt can lead us to a deeper attention and a more complete seeking for the truth.

-- Jack Kornfield

Spirituality Quote of the Week

We are, each of us, God's hands here on earth. If we turn away from darkness, the light of goodness and hope will fade in the very places it is most needed. We must not let that happen.

-- Kent Nerburn

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path that leads to the Self within.

-- The Bhagavad Gita

Spirituality Quote of the Week

A spiritual life requires discipline because we need to learn to listen to God, who constantly speaks but whom we seldom hear.

-- Henri Nouwen

Spirituality Quote of the Week

When you cease doing, then God will begin.

-- Watchman Nee

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Standing firm in one's faith does not mean adhering to a set of beliefs; it does not require us to suppress doubts about Christian or other doctrines, but points to something which lies beyond doubt in the depth in which man's being and all being is rooted. To be aware of this Ground, to live in it and out of it is ultimate strength.

-- Paul Tillich

Spirituality Quote of the Week

The spiritual journey from beginning to end can be characterized as the overcoming of fear.

-- Kabir Helminski

Spirituality Quote of the Week

God gives us needs that God alone can satisfy and awakens capacities that God means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation leading to new birth and a mystical regeneration.

-- Thomas Merton

Spirituality Quote of the Week

We must ask and be willing to receive. Without our willingness, the Universe cannot deliver.

-- Julia Cameron

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Mental hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night.

-- Kenny Werner

Spirituality Quote of the Week

God is ever-present in our world in the face of the poor, waiting to be met. In the powerless, one can find the power of God; in the voiceless, one can hear the voice of God; in the impoverished, one can find God's treasures; in the weak, one can find God's strength; and in the unattractive, one can find God's beauty.

-- Ronald Rolheiser