Quotes About Spirituality

Why do we go to church, Fynn?" "To understand Mister God more." "Less." "Less what?" "To understand Mister God less." ................. "You go to church to make Mister God really, really, really big, then you really, really don't understand Mister God- then you do.

It isn't the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it's his Godlikeness. It's the fullness of the Good that can't get out or can't find its proper 'other place' that makes for loneliness.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

Humanity in general had an infinite number of points of view, whereas Mister God had an infinite number of viewing points.

Fynn, you can love better than any people that ever was, and so can I, can't I? But Mister God is different. You see, Fynn, people can only love outside and can only kiss outside, but Mister God can love you right inside, and Mister God can kiss you right inside, so it's different. Mister God ain't like us; we are a little bit like Mister God, but not much yet.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy … and … does not stand opposed to submission to God

We stand, as did the men of old, in the valley, and ask the same question as they: "Watchman, what of the night?" Men of God upon the heights of vision, seers of the present day, looking out upon the great horizon, send back to us the old answer, "The morning cometh; the night also." The signs of the times are such as reveal the power of spirituality, side by side with the development of evil; but, thank God, beyond the night that comes is the larger day and gladder age for man.

I have given up reading any book outside the Bible for proof of its inspiration. This blessed Book is gripping my inner consciousness more and more, and is compelling my obeisance to what must

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Step softly, under snow or rain,To find the place where men can pray;The way is all so very plainThat we may lose the way.

Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

Love without knowledge is demonic.