Quotes About Spirituality

Humillemos, pues, nuestras almas bajo de la mano de Dios en toda tribulación y tentación. Porque El salvará y engrandecerá los humildes de espíritu.

Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.

Religion is all bunk.

In liturgical prayer we experience most intensely that we are not made to be individual supermen who transcend the limits of humanity and no longer need anyone else. Rather we are called into ever deeper relationships with everyone as we grow in our relationship with God.

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.

Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

When the devil is called the God of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and—need it be said?—those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.

Faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature, and perfection supposes something that can be perfected.

So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence – we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.

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