Quotes About Spirituality

Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. Therefore I refuse to allow sickness to dominate my body. The Life of God flows within me bringing healing to every fiber of my being. (Matt. 8:17; John 6:63.)

Let me paraphrase what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:18: If you don't get rid of that image of looking at the seen, and produce another image inside you, then the afflictions of life will not work in you an eternal weight of glory. But they will, if you're looking at the things that are not seen.

Crosses release us from this world, and by doing so, bind us to God. —Charles de Foucauld

Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

You must first enter into the understanding that God, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, is the source and that you can draw on this source without limit.

This inexhaustible mind substance is available at all times and in all places to those who have learned to lay hold of it in consciousness. The simplest, shortest, and most direct way of doing this was explained when Jesus said, Whosoever ... shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass, he shall have it.

Bless what you receive; bless what you send out. God's plenteous substance moves in and through our mind constantly like a light shining in the darkness, but we do not comprehend it.

The kingdom of God is omnipresence. It is absolute, changeless. It is within, but it is also everywhere. It is God transcendent.

I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home.

Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?

Love has its own communication. It's the language of the heart, while it has never been transcribed, has no alphabet, and can't be heard or spoken by voice, it is used by every human on the planet. It is written on our souls, scripted by the finger of God, and we can hear, understand, and speak it with perfection long before we open our eyes for the first time.

The lie of the devil consists of this: that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without Gods word. " —TEMPTATION

Daily, quiet reflection on the word of God as it applies to me ... becomes for one a point of crystallisation for everything which gives interior and exterior order to my life." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus." —TEMPTATION

The devil fears a roof of thatch beneath which the church is at prayer more than he does a splendid church in which many masses are celebrated. " —SANCTORUM COMMUNIO

In the temptation of Jesus, there really remains nothing except God's word and promise.

The devil... takes the word of God's grace in his hand and whispers to us: God is a God of grace; he will not take our sins so seriously.

To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism ... but to be a man." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy." —ETHICS

Lord Jesus, when I am tempted because I cannot see God and his power and love in this world, let me firmly look upon you, for you are my Lord and my God.

The Christian surely must be a person of passion rather than of reasonableness; of discernment rather than gullibility.

In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention. It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others.