Quotes About Spirituality

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

God dwells within me. As me.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

The most important thing you think is what you think about God.

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.