Quotes About Spirituality

If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Grant that I may worship and pray unto Thee with as much reverence and godly fear, as if I saw the heavens open and all the angels that stand around Thy throne. Amen.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

In a patch of silver the Rev. Carlisle stopped and raised his face to the full moon, where it hung desolately, agonizingly bright - a dead thing, watching the dying earth.

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

For nearly all, there is a source of inner peace that comes with the belief that something of you goes on even if death is indeed the final ending. If not personal immortality, at least children and grandchildren or

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

But you are wise, Or else you love not, for to be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

Does not our lives consist of the four elements? Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.

The great assay of art, but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—

As if we were God's spies

25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.