Quotes about Spirituality

All of us are called to share God's life, and we must face our ordeal and choose God freely.

Our identification with Christ is a permanent thing; our communion with Christ is as constant as the state of grace in our souls. You and I are the Church; that is our

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

But at last I began to consider that that which is highly esteemed among men is had in abomination with God. And I thought again, this Shame tells me what men are; but it tells me nothing what God, or the word of God is. And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.