Spiritual Quotes

"This (world) is God's Maya, through which he deceives himself."

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"The human being who looks upon his own future as already determined by fate...only acknowledges a lack of will power to struggle and win through."

Planck, Max

"You're gonna cry, cry, cry & you'll cry alone!" - Johnny Cash

Always remember: joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital.

—Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav

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Pope John Paul II's letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente:

"It is appropriate that, as the Second Millennium of Christianity draws to a close, the Church should become more fully conscious of the sinfulness of her children, recalling all those times in history when they departed from the spirit of Christ and his Gospel and, instead of offering to the world the witness of a life inspired by the values of faith, indulged in ways of thinking and acting which were truly forms of counter-witness and scandal".

"It is appropriate that, as the Second Millennium of Christianity draws to a close, the Church should become more fully conscious of the sinfulness of her children, recalling all those times in history when they departed from the spirit of Christ and his Gospel and, instead of offering to the world the witness of a life inspired by the values of faith, indulged in ways of thinking and acting which were truly forms of counter-witness and scandal".

"Look around you! Look at these people. Do you see the suffering and unhappiness in this world? Their only hope is the Resurrected Jesus. I don't care whether you're Jesus or not. The Resurrected Jesus will save the world -- that's what matters....I created the truth. I make it out of longing and faith. I don't struggle to find truth -- I build it. If it's necessary to crucify you to save the world, then I'll crucify you. And I'll resurrect you too, whether you like it or not....You don't know how much people need God. You don't know what a joy it is to hold the cross, to put hope in the hearts of men, to suffer, to be killed -- all for the sake of Christ."

--Paul, having a discussion with Jesus of Nazareth in the movie The Last Temptation of Christ.

Of course, that movie caused quite an uproar with its "fictionalized" account. It seems that the fundies like their own fictionalized account much, much better.

"I think I'll go home and mull this over
Before I cram it down my throat
At long last it's crashed, the colossal mass
Has broken up into bits in my moat.
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It's a luscious mix of words and tricks
That let us bet when you know we should fold
On rocks I dreamt of where we'd stepped
And the whole mess of roads we're now on.
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One day I'll be wondering how
I got so old just wondering how
I never got cold wearing nothing in the snow."


--The Shins, from Caring is Creepy

There's a lot of spirituality in there for me.

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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein

We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.

Hatred paralyzes life;
love releases it.

Hatred confuses life;
love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life;
love illuminates it."

~Martin Luther King Jr.~

"Close you legs was birth control when i was a young'un."
Grandma Lipschitz

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

~Martin Luther King Jr.~

"A clown can get away with murder"
- John Wayne Gacey

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein