Quotes About Spirituality

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

God has sealed their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes there is a covering. They will have a terrible punishment. 8

Abstain from luxuries, for those who live luxurious lives are no servants of God.' HADITH OF AHMAD IBN HANBAL.

and believe in Me, so that they may be rightly

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

I have never lost my faith in God.

what I feel with regard to our Mass, for instance, is the exact opposite of what you think you would be bound to feel. I feel at Mass as if I were breathing the kind of air you breathe on the mountains in spring, or in a wood, or in the fields at dawn on a spring day; something where the freshness is fresh beyond all sweetness: it is more than sweetness, it is simply fresh--unspeakably fresh . . . that is all, and that is enough. . . .

Maurice Maeterlinck

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thoughts. Above all is there the wonderful, central channel of love.

Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this there can be no nobler aim in life. It is only by the communications we have with the infinite that we are to be distinguished from each other.

signs of a life that we cannot explain are everywhere, vibrating by the side of the life of every day.

_ the psychology of which I speak is transcendental, and throws light on the direct relationship that exists between soul and soul, and on the sensibility as well as the extraordinary presence of the soul.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Do we know what it is that dies in our dead, or even if anything dies? Whatever our religious faith may be, there is at any rate one place where they cannot die. That place is within ourselves; and, if this unhappy mother went beyond the truth, she was yet nearer to it than those despairing ones who nourish the mournful certainty that nothing survives of those whom they loved. She felt too keenly what we do not feel keenly enough.

We speak of 'inspiration,' and the word should be taken literally. There really is inspiration and expiration of Being.

God is not known apart from experience, but we take hold of him in the finite.

In our very present, we discover a layer of spiritual being, i.e., of historical being, delimiting a 'space of humanity,' and geometry is offered as belonging to it, I.e., geometry is offered as connected to a past in general, to men who as such are not known by us. But this nonknowledge is a knowledge. The essence of tradition lies in being not immediately graspable in a static essence. In front of our reflection, geometry and its tradition become a hollow; they open a dimension.

The eye accomplishes the prodigious work of opening the soul to what is not soul – the joyous realm of things and their god, the sun.

For me, philosophy consists in giving another name to what has long been crystallized under the name of God.

Immanence is transcendence that has cooled down.