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QUOTATIONS: Descriptions & Images of Spirituality
Spirituality concerns an ancient and primal search for meaning that
is as old as humanity itself and…belongs – as an inherent
energy – to the evolutionary unfolding of creation itself.
~Diamuid
O’Murchu, Reclaiming Spirituality
Christian spirituality is intensely practical, earthed, and real for
it is the way we live out our professed beliefs. It is a spirituality
of relations: not simply our relationship with God, but very human,
embodied relations n the here and now… Further, our spirituality
is reflected in our relationship is reflected in our relationships
to all of creation, not just our own little circle of people whose
lives touch ours directly.
~Margaret
Guenther, The Practice of Prayer
Spirituality is our awareness of and relationship to the Mystery of
life and our conscious response to it. Spirituality is our listening
to God in all of life, (all ways and always) and our “choiceful” response.
~Alexandra Kovats
I use the term spirituality to refer to our way of being in the world
in light of the Mystery at the core of the universe; a mystery
that some of us call God.
~Maria
Harris, Proclaim Jubilee
The Spirit is life, ruah, breath, wind. To be spiritual is to
be alive, filled with ruah, breathing deeply, in touch with the wind. Spirituality
is a life-filled path, a spirit-filled way of living.
~Matthew
Fox, Creation Spirituality
The spiritual journey is about movement beyond the self—especially
toward greater unity with the life-source –but this process
takes place within the overall context or reality’s interdependence…in
its broadest sense, spirituality centers on our awareness and experience
of relationality.
~Katherine
Zappone, Hope for Wholeness
For me, the heart of the spiritual quest is to know “the rapture
of being alive” and to allow that knowledge to transform us
into celebrants, advocates, defenders of life wherever we find it.
~Parker
Palmer, The Active Life
God is at home: it is we who have gone out for a walk. ~Meister Eckhart
(Christian) Spirituality is understood to include not merely the techniques
of prayer, but more broadly, a conscious relationship with God,
in Jesus Christ, through the indwelling of the Spirit and in the
context of the community of believers.
~Philip
Sheldrake, Exploring Christian Spirituality
I believe that fundamentally spirituality has to do with becoming a
person in the fullest sense.
~ John
McQuarry, Exploring Christian Spirituality