Quotes About Spirituality

Man wird nicht dadurch erleuchtet, daß man sich Lichtgestalten vorstellt, sondern durch Bewusstmachung der Dunkelheit.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you.

Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.

To read and pray the Psalms is to join the voices of numberless people who too have read and prayed them, have felt their joy, anguish, and indignation.

Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la cruz»29.

When you get alone with God and begin to pray, you learn your insignificance. You see how big and powerful God is, and suddenly, the whole of your life becomes worship and praise.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

I-thou relationship. Martin Buber's term for a special relationship that is possible between persons when those persons relate to each other in a fully personal way and do not think of the other as an object to be manipulated or as a means to an end. Buber believed that such relationships make possible a different kind of knowledge of the other and that it is possible to have such a relation with God, who is the absolute Thou.

The world determines wealth and success by what you have. God determines wealth and success by what you give. Success is not about what you get but what you become. You

High thoughts are profound.

The man's brow was furrowed, and he said, "Why, I believe forgiveness and love are the same thing. Don't you?

I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne