Quotes About Spirituality

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.