Quotes About Spirituality

I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

God will forgive me. That's his business.

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

God loveth the clean.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God.

A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.