Spirituality

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts lead us back to God." - Francis Bacon ...

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha ...

"Dear young people. Make your generous and responsible contribu­tion to the constant building up of the Church as a family, a place of dialogue and mutual acceptance, a space of peace, mercy and pardon." - Pope Francis ...

"When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing." - Saint Francis of Assisi ...

"Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods." - Abraham Joshua Heschel ...

"Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God, but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate ...

"If you open yourself to grace working through you, then grace works on you and in you as well. Grace is what has kept me going." - John Records ...

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ...

"Most people do not pray; they only beg." - George Bernard Shaw ...

"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent.... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and ...