Quotes About Spirituality

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

The more consciously and freely we choose an evil, the more responsible we are for it and the more guilty we are of it; this is why spiritual sins like pride are greater in guilt than carnal sins.

There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

when the soul no longer conforms to the will of God, the body no longer conforms to the will of the soul.

We pray, not simply as some solitary self-improvement program, but because we have been addressed by God. Prayer is a response to a prior divine invitation.

Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.

the contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

ora et labora, prayer and work.

His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.

The meaning of life is to become a saint.

Charity transcends mere virtue. Yet once this charity exists, it fulfills all virtue, as the New Law fulfills the Old and as grace fulfills nature. Charity is the heart and soul of all virtue.

life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.

the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure

In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine).

Yes, organized religion is a crutch. You mean you didn't know that you are a cripple? If you don't know that, then you are a very serious cripple indeed, mentally and spiritually.

nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.

The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.

We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.