Quotes about Life
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
— Henri Nouwen
The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
— Henri Nouwen
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
— Henri Nouwen
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
— Francis de Sales
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
— David Wilkerson
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
— John Henry Newman
If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.
— Henry B. Eyring
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
— Timothy Keller
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.
— JC Ryle