Quotes About Spirituality

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

So this is what life is really about, Twingo thought as he listened, living and dying unto God. He had seen men die on the battlefield, torn apart in a burst of entrails, and God hadn't seemed to have much to do with it, but Schwester Kasimira, reading away holy German words out of her big book, seemed to know that even those untidy deaths had been died unto God.

Even after he had met Maria, life hadn't been much about God, but only about Maria herself and kissing her under the brim of her wide white hat; but now that she lay there dying because she hadn't wanted to go back to Russia, the world was all about God and he didn't think Schwester Kasimira and the nuns silly any longer.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.

As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.

fasting, with prayer as its companion, is designed to increase spirituality; to foster a spirit of devotion and love of God; to increase faith in the hearts of men, thus assuring divine favor; to encourage humility and contrition of soul; to aid in the acquirement of rightousness; to teach man his nothingness and dependence upon God; and to hasten those who properly comply with the law of fasting along the path to salvation.

As men die temporally for want of temporal bread, so they die spiritually for want of spiritual food.

However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don't often participate in my religion but I know somewhere... deep inside... I'm still on the team.

And those you are with in the presence of miracles, you never forget.

What we need is a somber, thoughtful, thorough, hype-free, even lugubrious book that honors the dead and resuscitates the spiritual ancestors of today's mediated frenzy.

We all have some emptiness in our lives, an emptiness that some fill with art, some with God, some with learning. I have always filled the emptiness with drugs. Because

Do you remember, Abelard.… Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

All that we require for growing in godliness, our God provides.

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

When we pray in Jesus' name, we are appealing to the Holy Spirit to conform our prayers to Christ's purposes.

The inevitable consequence of obedience without delight is the erosion of holiness.

Nothing will ever separate us, neither life, nor death, nor the armies of Hell. If I don't see you again on this side of the heavenly wall, I will see you on the other.

Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.