Quotes about Spirituality

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.  What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?

I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here?

The grey church looked greyer, and the lonely church looked lonelier.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

It is less important whether we worship the holy spirit in the form of a tree, a woman, a man, or an animal than that we do worship and honor it. At the same time, we must accord each other the right to atheism or agnosticism - for religion becomes little more than fascism if it is compelled rather than self-motivated.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.