Quotes About Spirituality

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

An angry man is unfit to pray.

Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.