Quotes about Spirituality
Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
— John Calvin
Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.
— John Calvin
The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world.
— John Calvin
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
— John Calvin
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
— John Calvin
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
In the Eucharist we can find all the dimensions of communion: God communicates himself to us, we enter into communion with him, the participants of the sacrament enter into communion with one another, and creation as a whole enters through man into communion with God. All this takes place in Christ and the Spirit, who brings the last days into history and offers to the world a foretaste of the Kingdom.
— John Zizioulas
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
— John Donne
Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.
— John Donne
Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
— John Donne
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
Our two souls therefore which are one,Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to airy thinness beat.
— John Donne