Quotes On: Spirituality

We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.