Spiritual Coping Quotes

I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

My father disowned me and my mother left me. It was difficult but I took Lord Ganesha's and Jesus's name and could pass through it.

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.