Quotes about Spirituality
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
— Henry David Thoreau
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.
— Henry David Thoreau
The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.
— Henry David Thoreau
The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?
— Henry David Thoreau
By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.
— Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
— Henry David Thoreau
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.
— Henry David Thoreau
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature and, through her, God.
— Henry David Thoreau
Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.
— Henry David Thoreau