Quotes About Spirituality

il n'envisageait que les biens célestes, ne pouvant comprendre qu'on mît en balance une éternité de félicité avec quelques heures d'une joie périssable.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

But the best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. He is no longer someone we theorize about. He is someone we want to be near.

Friendships-in-God are not found by seeking friendship, but by seeking God. Those who draw closer to God find such friendships simply burst upon them. These bombshells of intense affection explode without warning in our lives. But they are good surprises.

So as we grow in Christ, we grow into new families, formed by a deep common love of God. The bond, it seems, is sacramental.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

Di qualsiasi cosa siano fatte le nostre anime, la sua e la mia sono uguali.

No sé de que estarán hechas nuestras almas, pero sea de lo que sea, la suya es igual a la mía

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

No sé de qué estarán hechas nuestras almas; pero, sean de lo que sea, la suya es igual a la mía

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.  What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?

Não sei como explicar; mas você e todo mundo sabe que há, ou ao menos deve haver, uma existência nossa além da nossa própria. Para que serviria a minha criação se eu estivesse toda contida em mim?

Me parece apreciar en la muerte un reposo que ni el infierno ni la tierra son capaces de quebrantar, y me invade la sensación de un futuro eterno y sin sombras. Sí; la Eternidad.

Meu espírito nunca esteve mais próximo de Deus do que ao contemplar aquela perfeita imagem do repouso divino. Instintivamente, repeti as palavras que ela pronunciara, algumas horas antes: Incomparavelmente acima de todos nós — assim estava ela, Ainda na terra ou já no céu, o seu espírito já está unido a Deus!

Vejo na morte um repouso que nem a terra nem o inferno podem romper, e sinto a certeza de uma eternidade sem fim e sem limites — a Eternidade em que o defunto acabou de entrar —, onde a vida perdura para sempre e o amor e a alegria também.

And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! [...] I know that ghosts HAVE wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only DO not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! [...] I CANNOT live without my life! I CANNOT live without my soul!

Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir?  I'd give a great deal to know. I declined answering Mrs. Dean's question, which struck me as something heterodox.  She proceeded: Retracing the course of Catherine Linton, I fear we have no right to think she is; but we'll leave her with her Maker.

No se de que estaran hechas las almas; pero la suya y la mia son iguales

De lo que sea que nuestras almas estén hechas; la suya y la mía son lo mismo.

I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here?

Ne mogu to izraziti, ali ti, kao svaki ?ovjek, zasigurno slutiš da postoji ili da bi trebao postojati život izvan našeg života. Kakve bi koristi bilo od mojeg postojanja kad bi bila u potpunosti dio ovog života?

Sada su sve nade raspršene, zato što je glupan žarko želio ?uti loše o sebi, a to neke ljude progoni kao zao duh.