Quotes About Spirituality

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

A woman is the image of God.

porque el hombre está dirigido a Dios, en cuanto a un fin que sobrepasa la comprensión de su razón:

San Gregorio dice: "El pecado que no se deshace por la penitencia, en seguida arrastra por su peso a otro pecado".

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Prayer is a lifting up of a pure mind unto God, in the which we ask somewhat of him according to his will.

We beseech thee, O heavenly Father, that we be never unmindful of this thy exceeding great kindness, nor unthankful for thy manifold and unspeakable mercies declared unto us in the glorious death of thy well-beloved Son; but so work thou in us through thy Holy Spirit, that we may be made worthy members of that body, whereof thy Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ is the Head.

Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.

What is the world? A heap and muster of men, without the word of God.

God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

God give us grace to have the true knowledge of God and of ourselves.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.

The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.

The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.

I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

Nature is the art of God.

And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kisse of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them.