Quotes about Spirituality

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

Successful evangelists are persons of the Eucharist. They are immersed in the rhythms of the Mass; they practice Eucharistic adoration; they draw the evangelized to a participation in the Body and Blood of Jesus.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.