Quotes about Spirituality
A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
— Catherine Marshall
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
— Charles Dickens
God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
— Charles Swindoll
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
— Charles Spurgeon
In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.
— Dan Kimball
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
— Dante Alighieri
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
— Teresa of Avila
He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
— Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
— Thomas a Kempis
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
— Thomas a Kempis
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
— Thomas Merton