Quotes About Spirituality

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

Christian freedom is found in relationship to Christ himself, not in autonomy or individual independence. Identifying the sources of enslavement today is part of the discernment of spirits which marks our quest for holiness.

Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death.

Jesus rose bodily from the dead. His whole person is with God, but he is still in contact with the world, with each of us. Jesus is with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but he is constantly acting on us in the world. Free of all the bonds of space and time, the risen Jesus can be wherever he wants to be. And he wants to be with us.

The Church understands herself in terms of holiness; the world understands the Church in terms of power.

We are nowhere more together than in prayer with and to the Mother of our Lord.

Satan will not continue to assault you if the circumstances he designed to destroy you are now working to perfect you!

We need, in other words, a better theory of the human soul.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of [God's] Glory?

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This position will not go out of style or be disproven by future scientific discoveries. It is intellectually rigorous, it provides answers to many otherwise puzzling questions, and it allows science and faith to fortify each other like two unshakable pillars, holding up a building called Truth.