Quotes about Spirituality
If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence — we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: The six days, as Augustine understands them, are taken as the six classes of things known by the angels; so that the day's unit is taken according to the unit of the thing understood; which, nevertheless, can be apprehended by various ways of knowing it.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A woman is the image of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
— Origen
I have a Bible near my bed.
— Donald Trump
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
— Moby
Every new generation is a new crop that needs to be harvested for God.
— Reinhard Bonnke
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
— NT Wright