Origen Quotes

We're born spiritually dead, and I'm calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, don't wait until later to live the way you were created.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.