All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but oh get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is and how evil you all are and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Don't be confused that my interest in religion faith and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
Through history people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith too.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism taken outside midfield leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness which are often identical.
In the spiritual body moreover man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love not only as to the face and the body but also as to the speech and the actions.
Honestly I think a good film is spiritual regardless of whether its subject is faith.
I just sort of take it from a character perspective and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life and hope is faith.
From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.