Quotes about Spirituality

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

Those who turn to the Master with open hearts will feel his power and experience peace.

We have been endowed with spiritual senses so that we can feel and enjoy God's presence.

In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.

The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.

In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever-growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.