Quotes about Spirituality

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.