Quotes About Spirituality

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

Sometimes, I think I'm the child of the Devil. Honestly, I do believe that. I've invited the Devil in, and now I can't get him out. I've tried burning him out and cutting him out and he don't take no notice. Why should he? He doesn't want to be homeless. He's got me. Little, skinny, violent me.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Vital spark of heav'nly flame!Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mindSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;His soul proud Science never taught to strayFar as the solar walk or milky way;Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n,Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowlThe feast of reason and the flow of soul.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...

Errare è umano, perdonare divino.

Brilho eterno de uma mente sem lembranças. Toda prece é ouvida, toda graça se alcança.

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.

In the Bible the food that man eats, the world of which he must partake in order to live, is given to him by God, and it is given as communion with God.

Homo sapiens," "homo faber" … yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.

Homo sapiens," "homo faber" … yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans." The first, the basic definition of man is that he is the priest.

As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5

Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, once cautioned, "Do not be so busy with the work of Christ (or anything else) that you have no strength left for praying. True prayer requires strength.

What speaks to the soul, escapes our measurements.