Quotes about Spirituality

Monastic prayer begins not so much with "considerations" as with a "return to the heart," finding one's deepest center, awakening the profound depths of our being

It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny.… To work out our identity in God.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.

The proud man loves his own illusion and self-sufficiency. The spiritually poor man loves his very insufficiency.

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei.

The "spiritual life" is then the perfectly balanced life in which the body with its passions and instincts, the mind with its reasoning and its obedience to principle and the spirit with its passive illumination by the Light and Love of God form one complete man who is in God and with God and from God and for God. One man in whom God is all in all. One man in whom God carries out His own will without obstacle.

The life of the soul is not knowledge, it is love, since love is the act of the supreme faculty, the will, by which man is formally united to the final end of all his strivings—by which man becomes one with God.

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this.

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.