Quotes about Spirituality

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Belief in angels makes an even bigger difference if you believe in God and pray, because your prayers to God to send angel help will be answered.

However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

Good theology is not the knowledge of theology but the knowledge of God. Bad theology is the theology of the theologian who died and went to Heaven and at the gates of Heaven God offered him the choice between Heaven and a theology lecture on Heaven, and he chose the lecture.

we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.

The most real human persons are saints. They are what we are all designed to be.

Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agap?." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112).

we are participating in His actual work.

angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.