Quotes about Spirituality
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.
— NT Wright
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.
— Shane Claiborne
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
— Henri Nouwen
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
— Henry David Thoreau
When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.
— Kathryn Kuhlman
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.
— St. Anthony of Padua
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
— Jonathan Edwards
The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
— Edith Stein
I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
— Mother Angelica
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
— Dallas Willard
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
— JRR Tolkien