Quotes about Spirituality

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.

God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.