Quotes about Spirituality
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.
— Ambrose of Milan
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
— CS Lewis
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
— Jonathan Edwards
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.
— Johannes Tauler
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
— Johannes Tauler
Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
— Charles Spurgeon
Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.
— Charles Spurgeon