Quotes About Spirituality

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.

Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.

Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.

Many people have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but they do not have a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God.

Anything of spiritual significance that happens in your life will be a result of God's activity in you. He is infinitely more concerned with your life and your relationship with Him than you or I could possibly be.

But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.

People don't ask questions about spiritual matters unless God is at work in their lives. When you see someone seeking God or asking questions about Christianity, you are witnessing God at work.

Ezekiel 36:26: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Right now, God is working all around you.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

Happy those early days, when IShin'd in my angel-infancy!Before I understood this placeAppointed for my second race.

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!Shining nowhere but in the dark;What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,Could man outlook that mark!

They are all gone into the world of light!And I alone sit lingering here;Their very memory is fair and bright,And my sad thoughts doth clear.

But felt through all this fleshly dressBright shoots of everlastingness.

...the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

And here in the dust and dirt, O here, the lilies of His love appear.

There is in God a deep but dazzling darkness.

There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

There is in God, some say A deep but dazzling darkness... O for that night, that I in Him Might live invisible and dim.

The poets wrestle with the angel of sorrow till he leaves a blessing upon them.

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.