Quotes About Spirituality

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.