Quotes about Spirituality

Where the Holy Spirit is moving, sick people will be free to be unhealthy and thus will be free to be healed.

The most important anchor, and therefore our "greatest help and blessing," St. Teresa noted, is the fact that in Christ God became a man, hence someone we can concretely envision in our minds when we pray.

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.

our knowledge of God, our salvation, and our spiritual growth all depend on our keeping our eyes fixed singularly on Jesus Christ.

If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God's Word to have more credibility than our present feelings.

I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses."

The sinner... while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God.

The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.