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Quotes About Spirituality

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
~ Ayad Akhtar
There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.
~ Jim James
The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done, not merely something believed, or known or experienced.
~ Mary McDermott Shideler
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
~ Thomas Merton
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.
~ Saint Rose of Lima
Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways
~ Angela Merici
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
~ Teresa of Avila
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
~ Alexandra DavidNeel
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
~ Jenny Lind
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
~ Plato
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~ Michelangelo
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
~ Socrates
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
~ Rumi
Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.
~ William Jovanovich
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Man doth not live by bread only.
~ Bible
The fewer the words, the better prayer.
~ Martin Luther
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
~ Maltbie Babcock
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
~ Betty Shabazz
Good, but not religious-good.
~ Thomas Hardy
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
~ Joseph Addison
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
~ William Penn
His Christianity was muscular.
~ Benjamin Disraeli