SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS QUOTES

Below are some of the many quotations that challenge and intrigue me.

1. “The entry point is right where you are.” – Zen saying
2. "Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." -- St. Francis of Assisi
3. "Christ moves along the pots and pans." -- St. Teresa of Avila
4. "What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection." -- Fred Rogers, childrens' television host and Presbyterian minister
5. "You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny." -- Harold Kushner
6. "The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace." -- Mother Teresa
7. "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." -- Mother Teresa
8. "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." -- John Wesley
9. "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
10. "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother Teresa
11. "Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places." - Hannah Senesh
12. "The important thing is to strive toward a goal that is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit." -- St. Exupery
13. "Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right." -- Jerry Garcia
14. "A blank sheet of paper is God's way of letting you know what it feels like to be God." -- Anonymous
15. "Anybody can be great. Because anybody can serve...you only need a heart full of grace." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
16. "When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God." -- Annie Besant
17. "As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love." -- Madeline L'Engle
18. "My belief is that we did not come from God so much as that we are going towards God." -- Jena Duncan
19. "Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach
20. "Pray as though everything depended on God; then work as though everything depended on you." -- author unknown
21. "I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms." -- The Rev. Billy Graham
22. "Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer." -- Madeline L'Engle
23. "Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does dance." -- Margaret Mead
24. "God is action -- let us be like God." -- Frances E. Willard
25. "Let nothing disturb thee; let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes." -- St. Teresa of Avila
26. "Why me, Lord? Now we see but a poor reflection, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." -- 1 Corinthians 13:12
27. "Happily may I walk. May it be beautiful before me. May it be beautiful behind me. May it be beautiful below me. May it be beautiful above me. May it be beautiful around me. In beauty it is finished." -- Navajo night chant (this was part of a memorial service for my friend Jim Reid)
28. "Silence is a great place of power and healing. Silence is God's lap." -- Naomi Remen, M.D.
29. "God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers, but God has one." -- Anne Sexton
30. "We are always in the forge or in the anvil; by trials, God is shaping us for higher things." -- Henry Ward Beecher
31. "Listen, God loves everything you love and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God loves admiration -- I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." -- Alice Walker
32. "I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make." -- Maya Lin
33. "That's not a solar system. It is a potato." -- Painter Joan Miro to surrealist Paul Eluard
34. "How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?" -- Rumi
35. "I think different religions can be equally valid in the following way: different people with the same illness may need different medications because they're different people. Different people with the same psychological condition sometimes need different kinds of therapy. God affects each of us according to who we are. In that sense, I believe that God is personal....Gravity is impersonal -- it treats everyone the same way. Love is personal -- I feel something different from what you feel. I respond to one individual differently than another. Some people need the emphasis rendered in Christianity, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, and not in Judaism..." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner
36. "People see God every day. They just don't recognize him." -- Pearl Bailey
37. "How can God direct our steps if we're not taking any?" -- Sarah Leah Grafstein
38. "Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and job finally for you too." -- Frederick Buechner
39. "As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation." -- Renita Weems
40. "You can never prove God, you can only find him." -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
41. "A good time is a taste of God." -- John Aurelio
42. "God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness. He is not in the general. He is in the particular." -- Pearl S. Buck
43. "Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance it." -- Rubem Alves
44. "God has not called me to be successful; he has called me to be faithful." -- Mother Teresa
45. "It is easier to gaze into the sun than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty." -- Hildegard of Bingen
46. "God is not the voice in the whirlwind. God is the whirlwind." -- Margaret Atwood
47. "Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions." -- G.C. Lichtenberg
48. "I think God is at the junction of every choice we make and is with us as our choices unfold....I've tried to be open to the possibilities God has made available to me." -- Fred Rogers
49. "God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world." --Marian Wright Edelman, from Guide My Feet
50. “God doesn’t play dice with the world.” -- Albert Einstein
51. “There are two ways to live your life – one is as if everything is a miracle, the other is as though nothing is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein
52. “They are not gone who live in the hearts they leave behind.” – Native American saying
53. “As one goldfish said to another, ‘if there’s no god, who changes the water every week?’” – quote I heard somewhere
54. “The meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.” -- Rabbi Abe Heschel
55. “Begin to weave and God will give the thread.” -- German proverb
56. "If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people." - Thich Nhat Hanh
57. "...what about those, and there are many, who do not believe in a God -- those who are atheists? It does not make any difference....A life lived in the service of humanity, a love of and respect for all living things -- those attributes are the essence of saintlike behavior." -- Jane Goodall
58. “No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” – Zen saying
59. "When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree." - Vietnamese saying
60. "It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world." -- Lester, American Beauty
61. "A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he does it in a devout manner." -- Thomas Carlyle
62. "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I believe it, but because I see everything by it." -- C.S. Lewis
63. "God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner
64. "God is wise in so many things we don't see. I strongly believe that he starts out each person with everything they'll ever need to successfully fulfill their role." -- Dr. Phil McGraw
65. "People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out. But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
66. "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." -- Martin Luther
67. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -- Leo Buscaglia
68. "Not all who wander are lost" -- words on a shirt worn by a woman riding the PATH this evening
69. “Be great in little things.” –- Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Jesuit teacher, missionary
70. "Here on earth, God's work must be our own." -- John F. Kennedy
71. “Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles?” – Zen saying
72. “Attentively, watch your step.” – Torei Zenji walking meditation
73. “Travelers there is no path. Paths are made by walking.” -– Antonio Machado
74. “We are constantly invited to be what we are.” –- Henry David Thoreau
75. “To separate what we like from what we dislike is the disease of mind.” -– Sosan Ganchi Zenji
76. “Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.” -- Paul Reps, in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
77. “When you become you, Zen becomes Zen. When you become you, the whole world falls in love.” -- Eshin
78. “When you really look for me you will see me instantly.” -- Kabir
79. "Tut tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
80. "Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place." -- Henri Nouwen
81. "Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray." -- St. Francis de Sales
82. "Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world." -- Gandhi
83. "The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen." -- Mowgli, in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
84. “Breathing in, I smile, breathing out I relax. This is a wonderful moment.” -– Thich Nhat Hanh
85. “I pray by breathing.” -– Thomas Merton
86. “When the most important things in life happen, we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.” -– C.S. Lewis
87. “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” –- Henry Miller
88. “Act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference.” –- Buddhist saying
89. “What you know and what you believe are different things.” –- Anonymous
90. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” –- Frederick Buechner
91. “What becomes a hindrance becomes a way; what seems like an obstacle becomes a door, what seems a misfit becomes a cornerstone.” -– Henri Nouwen
92. “I look upon all the world as my parish.” –- John Wesley
93. “Faith steers us through stormy seas, moves mountains and jumps across oceans.” -– Gandhi
94. “Put the Bible on the shelf for twenty years and read the Earth.” –- Father Thomas Barry
95. “I think that God, in fact, played a trick on us. He gave each and every person talents and gifts, but he made no one gifted in all areas. Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together to share our gifts and talents.” -– Craig Kielburger
96. "Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders -- black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight -- everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me." -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
97. "What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia." -- Frederick Franck

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