Quotes About Spirituality

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

Nobody can convert you except God.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.