Quotes About Spirituality

The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that.

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

You are the one I am lit for. Come with your rod that twists and is a serpent. I am the bush. I am burning I am not consumed.

and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

The majority of parents we come into contact with have lost their faith and therefore have lost any kind of dependence on God. They are deprived of all the gifts that God can give them to raise their children properly; they are deprived of the wisdom and the discernment to guide their children when needed.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

To children, especially religious little ones, Heaven is always very near, and that one of its denizens should come to them does not seem so improbable as it does to mature minds.

Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One day there will be no Nature, no matter, no body, at least none such as to separate man from God: then there will be only God[.]

H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

Der Religion ist nur das Heilige wahr, der Philosophie ist nur das Wahre heilig.

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]

M]an in religion – in his relation to God – is in relation to his own nature[.]

Everybody makes his own god(s).

The conception of the morally perfect being is no merely theoretical, inert conception, but a practical one, calling me to action, to imitation, throwing me into strife, into disunion with myself; for while it proclaims to me what I ought to be, it also tells me to my face, without any flattery, what I am not. … [R]eligion renders this disunion all the more painful … [I]t sets man's own nature before him as a separate being.

In Christianity, man was concentrated only on himself, he unlinked himself from the chain of sequences in the system of the universe, he made himself a self-sufficing whole, … [H]e no longer regarded himself as being immanent in the world, because he severed himself from connection with it[.]

The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Musical and spiritual attainment is the destination we all seek.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.