Quotes About Spirituality

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

One reason for a long life is penance. Time is given us not just to accumulate that which we cannot take with us, but to make reparation for our sins.

Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an environment of love.

Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

Neglect of watching, prayer and mortifications produces an inner weariness about being too close to the Lord.

He who does not advance in perfection falls into imperfection. An unattended garden becomes full of weeds. Things do not remain the same by being left alone. White fences do not stay white; they gradually become gray and then black. There are no planes in the spiritual life. We go uphill or we go downhill. The moment we cease to row against the stream, the current carries us down river.

If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul.

The man who says, 'I am so stupid,' instead of 'Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,' is still far from rebirth.

The vision of social amelioration without spiritual regeneration has constituted a temptation to which many important men in history have succumbed completely. But to Him, this would not be adequate service of the Father; there are deeper needs in man than crushed wheat; and there are greater joys than the full stomach.

But where the surrender is to God, we get ourselves back ennobled and enriched.

Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everything.

God spoke to the Gentiles through nature and philosophers; to the Jews, through prophecies.

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

God writes His name on the soul of every man. Reason and conscience are the God within us in the natural order.

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God

Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

Love is the religion that bereaves the bereft.

When the man touches through to the exact center of the woman, he lies motionless, in equilibrium, in absolute desire, at the threshold of the world to which the Creator Spirit knows the pass-whisper, and whispers it, and his loving friend becomes his divinity.

Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.