Quotes About Spirituality

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

Successful evangelists are persons of the Eucharist. They are immersed in the rhythms of the Mass; they practice Eucharistic adoration; they draw the evangelized to a participation in the Body and Blood of Jesus.

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.

A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.

Our longing for community seems to be a part of the image of the One Who made us, a part of the divine image whispered into us when we were whispered into being in the first place.

Personal prayer does not dispense us from corporate prayer. The one sustains the other.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.