Spiritual Guidance

I am a spiritual person, and a religious person. I believe in the power of religion to change the world (both good and bad). But I haven't found a church home out here yet. Yesterday I took some time to find some spiritual inspiration. Here is a list of what I most turn to:
1. The Color Purple:
"Here's the thing... The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit.
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Yeah It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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Don't look like nothing... It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds, Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed.
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God love everthing you love-- and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else God love admiration.
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[God] not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see It always trying to please us back.

2. From the Bible:
Philippians 4:8-9
Finally, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence,
and if anything is worthy of praise
dwell on these things
The things you have learned and received and heard in me, practice these things and the God of peace will be with you.

3. Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others


May you find the spirit within you this day and with that find peace in the world.