Quotes about Spirituality

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it.

For true doctrine is not a matter of the tongue, but of life; neither is Christian doctrine grasped only by the intellect and memory, as truth is grasped in other fields of study. Rather, doctrine is rightly received when it takes possession of the entire soul and finds a dwelling place and shelter in the most intimate affections of the heart.

On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.

All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him.