Quotes about Spirituality
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
— Anne Graham Lotz
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
— Moby
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
— John Calvin
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
— Thomas Merton
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
— Joseph Campbell
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
— Charles Hodge
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.
— Beth Moore
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.
— Watchman Nee
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
— Vance Havner