Quotes about Spirituality

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.

The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.