Quotes About Spirituality

He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.

Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

Almost the whole life of religious bodies lies in the maintenance of their first fervor.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Christians are not born but made.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

The Dark Night of the Soul.

O night that joinedBeloved and loverLover into beloved transformed

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

But Our Lady allowed this trouble to befall me for the good of my soul; without it, vanity might have crept into my heart, whereas now I was humbled, and looked at myself with profound contempt. My God, Thou alone knowest all that I suffered.

Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

This was followed by a year of silence. Then he wrote to Maeda to say, "I discovered my own god.

Bringing heaven down to earth, into our daily life, is how we rule our world.

Shambhala is not only a place; it is a spiritual path

Our true nature expresses itself as intelligence, clean energy, mindfulness, presence, and intuition. It also has an element of knowledge.

Great praxis demands great piety.