Quotes About Spirituality

Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

For even though our prayer-contact with God may be almost infinitely poor, the God we thus contact is infinitely rich!

Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.

Over half of all Roman Catholics in America today leave the Church before they get married and have kids. The most common reason for returning is for the kids. Like parachute jumpers, soldiers in foxholes, and big wave surfers, parents know they need God. And for similar reasons.

St. Thomas mentions the three things necessary to attain any end, earthly or Heavenly: knowledge, love, and presence;

Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace.

Therefore the prayers we offer in the Mass for the world are far more powerful than the prayers we offer outside the Mass, even if the prayers we offer outside the Mass are the same prayers, and even if there are more of them, and even if they are offered for the same people, or for more people, and even if they are offered with the same faith and devotion on our part, or even with a little more faith and devotion on our part.

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

Peter Kreeft

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old.

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered.

sacramentally present at Mass—this Church is either God 's own or it is the devil's own.

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

Good theology is not the knowledge of theology but the knowledge of God. Bad theology is the theology of the theologian who died and went to Heaven and at the gates of Heaven God offered him the choice between Heaven and a theology lecture on Heaven, and he chose the lecture.

we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.

USTON SMITH NOTES, IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, THAT ONLY TWO PEOPLE ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not Who is he? but What is he? They were Jesus and Buddha. The answers

Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agap?." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112).

angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.

God is a God who speaks!

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. RABBI NACHMANN OF BRATZLAV

The Zen expression "Kill the Buddha!" means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. To kill the Buddha is to be the Buddha.