Quotes About Spirituality

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.