Quotes About Spirituality

Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery.

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

I find it very worrying that we don't talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a price tag. You cannot buy spiritual values at a shopping mall. An old-growth forest, a clear river, the flight of a golden eagle, the howl of a wolf, the vitality of a tiger, space and quiet without motors, TVs, mobiles — these are intangibles. Those are the values that people need, that uplift our spirit.

But it is America that has taken FWPs to a whole new level. It is only when such great material wealth combines with stunning spiritual poverty, reaching not only the upper classes but across once-aspirational middle and now even lower classes, that the true obnoxiousness of the FWP is evident. The art of the whine has never been more perfected.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

Live above the world, and underneath you shall be God's Everlasting Arms.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

A good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

There's no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.