Quotes About Spirituality

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Standing on the bare ground… all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity;Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew—The conscious stone to beauty grew.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Love is the essence of God.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Again, "I can of my own self do nothing." And he then speaks of his purpose, his aim: "I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." A little later he adds: "The works that I do ye shall do also." Now again, these things mean something of a very definite nature, or they mean nothing at all.