Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

If you look back through history, you'll see that God, in any form - Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - has always wanted prosperity for everyone. There was a recognition of the need to integrate our material and spiritual lives. But that message was distorted by various leaders with their own agendas.

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

"God is a spirit." But that does not make him an immaterial being —a being that has no properties in common with matter. The expression "an immaterial being," is a contradiction in terms. Immateriality is only another name for nothing. It is the negative of all existence. A "spirit" is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

I don't think people are really breaking ground and getting new fans or anything. So, I just use it more in my personal life but obviously I'm in a business where people think that Twitter matters so I'll be like, "Yes, I will tweet out this show." But it is something that me, the human, uses.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.