Quotes about Spirituality
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
— Nelson Mandela
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
— Thomas Merton
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.
— Mary Baker Eddy
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
— Mother Teresa
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
— Martin Luther
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
— Calvin Coolidge
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...
— George Eliot
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.
— Jurgen Moltmann
If done as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness
— J. Oswald Sanders