Quotes About Spirituality

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

When men make gods, there is no God!

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.