Quotes about Spirituality

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

Live above the world, and underneath you shall be God's Everlasting Arms.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.