Quotes About Spirituality

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Ä°nsan, Tanr?'y? ak?l yürütme yoluyla keÅŸfedebilir.

For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say — thou knowest not so well as I .

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man, on the unity of man, as being all of one degree. whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

Propria mea minte este biserica mea.

Tek Tanr?'ya inan?r?m, ba?ka bir ?eye de?il; bu ya?amdan sonra da mutluluk olmas?n? umut ederim.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All

We have to confess that one man manifests more of the divine life than another, because he furnishes, consciously or otherwise, a better channel through which the divine life may flow. He has more avenues of expression, and is able to keep them open, and hence is a better medium through which the divine life may speak.