Quotes About Spirituality

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

A truncated spirituality, intent mainly upon finding an inner connection to the self, does not truly represent the mind of Christ.

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

To kirk the nearer, from God more far,Has been an old-said saw.And he that strives to touch the stars,Oft stumbles at a straw.

For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.

The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare.

a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.