Quotes about Spirituality

As the flower opens its petals to receive the morning light, so open your soul more and more to the glorious light of Truth.

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the "I am" of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.

Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.

To each one, the encounter with Jesus is unique, however it occurs. That no one possesses Jesus, or fully understands him, is why the movement toward Jesus can never be made alone.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.

We don't understand with our brains but with our hearts. That's where the image of God is.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.