Best spirituality & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?”

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.”

People Children Use Spirit Spirituality Easy Forget Magic Mystery Equal Stores Bedroom

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.”

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

Life Inspirational Children Doe Philosophy Wisdom Inspiration Spiritual Faith Spirituality Laughing Cry Greatness Christian Inspirational Bows Bowing Down

Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.”

Giving Trying Children Different Spirituality Love You Aspect And Love Our Children Sexuality Your Children Destructive Capture Romantic Love Exploring Children And Love

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.”

May Children Doe Facts Spiritual Dies Spirituality Individual Community Loses Journey Solitude Sight Who You Are Our Family Spiritual Journey

Author:Stuart Wilde

“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.”

“I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.”

Children Art Spirituality Parent Pieces Tree Flower Findings Catholic Raised Clouds Circles Art Music Full Circle Finding God

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.”

Children Spiritual Spirituality Reading Belief Familiar

Author:Jhene Aiko

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”

Children School Religion Spirituality Evil Parent Family Conscience Prison Sunday Penance Sunday School Sunday School Teacher

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.”

Children Hard Might Spirituality Understanding Challenges Opinion Teaching Humility Hard Work Training Perseverance Intuitive Perseverance And Hard Work

Author:James E. Faust

“Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.”

Children Stories Christian Spirituality Wonder Clean Dirty Odd Cute Reaching Mystical Neat Enchantment

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .”

People Needs Feels Children Littles Enough Spirituality Poor Teach Protect Prove Letting Go Who You Are Naked Child Of God

Author:Richard Rohr

“If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.”

“The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.”

Want Children Said Spiritual Spirituality Grows Growing Up Masters Want Him Gazing

Author:Anthony de Mello

“You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.”

Should Children Spiritual Mother Spirituality Born Study Childhood Our Children Buddhist Your Children

Author:Dogen

“Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.”

Believe Children Moments God Christian Spirituality Christ Accepting Doubt Mankind Opposites Christian Life Savior Revolt Child Of God Doubted

Book:The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent

Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent

“In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.”

Source: True Spirituality

“The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”

Ifs Want Needs Children Character Form Spirituality Consciousness Teach Angel Deserve Our Children Admire Admiration Traits Allegiance

Book:The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”

Ifs Children Self Use Light Spirituality Sides Divine Color Serious Musician Connections Scientist Notes Creator Deny Access Block Painter Feminine Chords Hunches Juxtaposition Divine Light

Author:Stuart Wilde

“I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”

Ifs World Want Mind Children Whole Spiritual Spirituality One Thing Faults Stranger Whole World My Children Peace Of Mind

Author:Sarada Devi

“All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.”

Children God Earth Together Spirituality All Things Bounds Interfaith

Author:Oren Lyons

“Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.”

Mind Children Littles Spirituality Evil Devil Angel Inspired Educational Theology Traditional Satan Demon Unconscious Mysticism Limbs Theological Reformers Abomination

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”

Children Spiritual Spirituality Given Tests Mysticism Christian Father

Book:The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986

Source: The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986

“Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others call a conditioning of the behavior. The child is brought up by Christians - then he is conditioned in one way, he becomes a Christian.”

People Way Children Christian Spirituality Behavior Eternal One Way Conditioning Pavlov Skinner

Author:Rajneesh

“You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.”

Source: The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.

“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

People Knows Life Humans Mean Children Dies Spirituality Born Sleep Existence Knowledge Learning Wake Up Management Awakening Waking Awakened Human Existence Loveliness

Author:Anthony de Mello

“When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want.”

People Want Children Soul Ends Purpose Spirituality Decision Talking Knowing Meditation Findings Yoga Empty Filled Strive Oneself Surrender Your Soul Satan Vacuums Child Of God Mantras

Author:E.W. Jackson

“A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.”

Men World May Children States Spirituality Heaven Philosopher Kingdoms Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.”

“The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.”

“Daniel Nahmod's music is addictive and contagious... and is equally comfortable addressing your spirituality, your co-dependence and anger, your hungry stomach or your loving heart. His songs run the gamut from meditative to wise-ass to joyful to everything in between, and he is particularly wonderful working with children (and the young-at-heart). When CDs 4 and 5 come out, you can feel totally comfortable buying them unheard and unseen -- all of Daniel's music is amazing.”

“The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.”

Trying Children Important Kids Culture Spirituality Unique Performances Traditional Capture Aboriginal

Author:Phillip Noyce

“Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.”

Firsts Children School Earth Spirituality Teacher Adults Tolerance

Author:Robert Muller

“And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.”

World Children Play Home Order Spirituality Existence Return Tired Our World Disorder Void Circus Nameless Non Existence Order And Disorder

Book:Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion

Source: Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion

Spirituality Quotes

Related topics

Spirituality Quotes