Quotes About Spirituality

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked