Quotes About Spirituality

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.