Quotes About Spirituality

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Desgraciado quien no haya amado mas que cuerpos, formas y apariencias. La muerte le arrebatara todo. Procurad amar las almas y un dia las volvereis a encontrar.

To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.

Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.

There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.

Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.

Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls