Quotes about Spirituality

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within — except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God