Quotes About Spirituality

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.