Quotes About Spirituality

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.