Quotes About Spirituality

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God....Without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.

when God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him. _________________________________________________________________

Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

Our Divine Master does not say unless a man be born again he shall not but, unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

Put on, as God's chosen ones, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

I wish I was what I have been And what I was could be As when I roved in shadows green And loved my willow tree To gaze upon the starry sky And higher fancies build And make in solitary joy Loves temple in the field

The life of the Christian can be an imitation of Christ (imitatio Christi) only because it is first a participation in Christ (participatio Christi

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.

They listen, the dead. They're always listening. What else is there for them to do?

Harlan was not a particularly religious man, and had always poured scorn on those whom he termed "God-botherers"—Christian, Jew, or Muslim, he had no time for any of them—but he was, in his way, a deeply spiritual being, worshipping a god whose name was whispered by leaves and praised in birdsong. He had been a warden with the Maine Forest Service for forty years

be close to another human being at that instant was enough to convince one, however briefly, that something beyond understanding passed from the body with that final sigh, that some essence began its journey from this world to another.

his childhood Catholicism had never left him and he still derived comfort from a place of worship.

There are gods within gods.

But the soul can burn and not be damned. The soul can burn with a bright fire, and never turn to ash.