Spiritual Exchange Quotes

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Bribery, he explained, is ingrained in every aspect of Chinese culture. When devotees go to worship Buddha, they don’t cleanse their souls, like Christians confessing their sins in church. They kneel down and donate money to the collection box, to bribe the Buddha.

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul

The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.