Quotes about Spirituality
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
— Charles Swindoll
Faith is never identical with piety.
— Karl Barth
God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
— Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.
— Karl Barth
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
— Karl Barth
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
— Karl Barth
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way
— Karl Barth
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
— Karl Barth
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?
— Karl Barth
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
— Karl Rahner
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
— Karl Rahner
It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?
— Karl Rahner