Quotes about Spirituality
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
— Dorothy Day
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
— Peter Kreeft
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
— Karl Barth
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
— AW Tozer
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
— CS Lewis
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
— St. Augustine
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
— John Milton
Religion is often politics made sacred.
— Gloria Steinem