Quotes About Spirituality

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.