#ritual

Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp. ↗

— Alexander Schmemann

#secularism #spirituality #life

The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. ↗

— James H. McConkey

#spirituality #life

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

I know you're tired but come, this is the way. ↗

— Rumi

#love #poetry #rumi #spiritual #sufi

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#faith #questioning #spirituality #faith

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #love

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real. ↗

— Misty Edwards

#beauty #belief #charity #christ #christian

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually. ↗

— Miquel Ruiz

#spirituality #love

Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don’t need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love

There’s a reason why one master teacher said, “Love your enemies.” He wasn’t preaching some touchy-feely mumbo jumbo. He was talking about a cosmic law. He knew there was only One of us here. That means that anything you withhold from another you’re withholding from yourself. But it also means that anything you give to another, you’re giving to yourself. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love