Quotes about Spirituality

In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

A very great matter is at stake when the true and truly holy divinity is commended to men as that which they ought to seek after and to worship; not, however, on account of the transitory vapor of mortal life, but on account of life eternal, which alone is blessed.

And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.