Quotes About Spirituality

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

As man acts, God reacts.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.