Quotes about Spirituality

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Man is God truly alive

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.