Quotes about Spirituality

Let me see them as thirsty people, I pray, and teach me how best to present the Living Water.

I'm simply amazed at how God worked in response to my prayers. I see a softening in my niece's husband, an agnostic. I see transformation in the members of my small group, and spiritual awakenings in my neighbors. I see growth in my own marriage.

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

The Israelites give ample proof that signs may only addict us to signs, not to God.

My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.

Jesus did not mix his spirituality with politics.

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.