Quotes About Spirituality

Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 "joy" days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 "misery and woe" days.

There is no true poet in whom fancy is not close akin to faith.

Transforming the human experience of aging into spiritual enlightenment in the service of peace on Earth.

I maintain that all spirituality must be founded on moral life; but on the other hand, moral life must, so to speak, bathe itself in the ocean of contemplation. Without contemplation, the moral life would tend to degenerate into a dry and narrow humanism. Without the moral life, contemplation would be empty and degenerate into quietism.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?" Answer: "Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - John Calvin (from his catechism)

The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.

It is a beastly business when people start eating without prayer, and when they are full, they run out without as much as mentioning God's name.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

For true doctrine is not a matter of the tongue, but of life; neither is Christian doctrine grasped only by the intellect and memory, as truth is grasped in other fields of study. Rather, doctrine is rightly received when it takes possession of the entire soul and finds a dwelling place and shelter in the most intimate affections of the heart.