Quotes about Spirituality

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This

the Church may exist without any apparent form, and, moreover, that the form is not ascertained by that external splendour which they foolishly admire, but by a very different mark, namely, by the pure preaching of the word of God, and the due administration of the sacraments.

Since Christ, our Head, has ascended to heaven, we should leave our carnal desires behind and lift our hearts upward to him.

The essence of God is rather to be adored than inquired into.

natural reason can never guide men to Christ. Even

It is not denied that there is room for improvement; but what I maintain is, that the nearer any one approaches in resemblance to God, the more does the image of God appear in him. That believers may attain to it, God assigns repentance as the goal towards which they must keep running during the whole course of their lives.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

For he contrasts shadows with revelation, and absence with manifestation.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.