Mother Teresa Quotes

Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Disposicion a transformacion personal es clave para Iluminacion Global.

Application of your faith will change your life

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

Nobody can convert you except God.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.