Spiritual Quotes

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and every manner of thing shall be well.

Dame Julian of Norwich

"As soon as worldly people see that you wish to follow a devout life they aim a thousand darts of mockery and even detraction at you. The most malicious of them will slander your conversion as hypocrisy, bigotry, and trickery. They will say that the world has turned against you and being rebuffed by it you have turned to God. Your friends will raise a host of objections which they consider very prudent and charitable. They will tell you that you will become depressed, lose your reputation in the world, be unbearable, and grow old before your time, and that your affairs at home will suffer. You must live in the world like one in the world. They will say that you can save your soul without going to such extremes, and a thousand similar trivialities.


ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice."

Pope Paul VI

If the Lord is thine shepherd then why does he allow the wolves in amongst the sheep?

- Henry Maustrauser in "The Life of Meaning"

I put this one up on my wall:

We live in a dark valley, on a spectrum between the unconscious grace of the puppet and the fully conscious grace of the god. But the only way out of this impasse, they agree, is not back towards childhood: as with the Garden of Eden, an angel with a fiery sword guards the way; there is no going back. We have to go forward, through the travails and difficulties of life and embarrassment and doubt, and hope that as we grow older and wiser we may approach paradise again from the back, as it were, and enter that grace which lies at the other end of the spectrum.

Philip Pullman, on Heinrich von Kleist's essay, 'On the Marionette Theatre'

And humanity's biggest failing was creating god. - rwingett

Originally posted by Starrman
And humanity's biggest failing was creating god. - rwingett

Originally posted by rwingett
I may have thought it, but I don't recall saying it.

An it harm none do what you will

Wiccan

"The ways of God may not be the same as the ways of man, but they should not be inferior to the ways of man."

attrib.--can't recall. Bertrand Russell?

Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.

Hildegard of Bingen

Originally posted by Darfius
Amen and amen!

"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

Matthew 6:9-13

God is Breath, for the breath of the wind is shared by all, goes everywhere; nothing shuts it in, nothing holds it prisoner.

St. Maximos the Confessor