Quotes about Spirituality

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.