Quotes about Spirituality
The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
— George Muller
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
— Thomas Jefferson
Health is the requisite after morality.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
— Thomas Merton
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
— Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
— Thomas Merton
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
— Thomas Merton
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
— Thomas Merton