Quotes About Spirituality

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

The spell of these terrible solitudes ... cannot leave any mind untouched, any mind, that is, possessed of the higher imaginative qualities.

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death. - Secret Worship

You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.

This ancient script was graven in his soul.

The world was forgotten there; and not the world merely, but the memory of it. Everything faded out. The soul turned inwards upon itself.

For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might beWhere air might wash and long leaves cover me;Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers,Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.

I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.

Save his own soul he hath no star.

God, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

This world is not a permanent place, it is a passage, a road on which you are passing. There are two kinds of people here: One is the kind of those who have sold their souls for eternal damnation, the other is of those who have purchased their souls and freed them from damnation.

Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of God for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.

Defend your faith (in God) with the help of charity. Protect your wealth with the aid of Zakat. Let the prayers guard you from calamities and disasters.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by God than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.