Quotes About Spirituality

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

That man is a Christian whose soul has learned to love; and he who has not learned to love, does not know the alphabet of Christianity.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

We go to the grave of a friend, saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."

Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

There are many Christians who like, about once in twelve months, to have a good revival in their hearts. They think that, like the year, they can make up for freezing and snowing all winter by a period of intense heat in the summer. The remedy for such is not to chill the revivals, but to shorten the intervals between them, and to endeavor to make their life equatorial and tropical all the year round.

It makes a great deal of difference what sort of God men believe in.

Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.