Quotes about Spirituality
You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?
— Confucius
If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
— Cormac McCarthy
How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?
— Cormac McCarthy
For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.
— Cormac McCarthy
The reverend waited for her to be seated and then he bowed his head and blessed the food and the table and the people sitting at it. He went on at some length and blessed everything all the way up to the country and then he blessed some other countries as well and he spoke about war and famine and the missions and other problems in the world with particular reference to Russia and the jews and cannibalism and he asked it all in Christ's name amen and raised up and reached for the cornbread.
— Cormac McCarthy
The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget. The woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Snowflake. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don't have it no more. Maybe you see this dechado. But before you see it it is gone. If you want to see it you have to see it on its own ground. If you catch it you lose it. And where it goes there is no coming back from. Not even God can bring it back.
— Cormac McCarthy
The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.
— Cormac McCarthy
Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
— Cormac McCarthy
God speaks in the least of creatures.
— Cormac McCarthy
Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
— Cormac McCarthy
Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.
— Cormac McCarthy