Quotes about Spirituality

His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.

The meaning of life is to become a saint.

life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.

the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure

nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.

Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.

Over half of all Roman Catholics in America today leave the Church before they get married and have kids. The most common reason for returning is for the kids. Like parachute jumpers, soldiers in foxholes, and big wave surfers, parents know they need God. And for similar reasons.

No happiness on earth can be deeper than the happiness that comes from our willing and active submission to God's will even when he wills suffering.

We want to complexify our lives. We don't have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.