Quotes about Spirituality

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.