Quotes About Spirituality

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.

"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

Hunting God is a great adventure.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.

Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God-I His atom.

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.

God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."

Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Man is that he might have joy.