Quotes about Spirituality

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Behind the cross stands the devil.

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires.

Be ugly, be God

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.