Quotes about Spirituality

The essence of God is rather to be adored than inquired into.

natural reason can never guide men to Christ. Even

It is not denied that there is room for improvement; but what I maintain is, that the nearer any one approaches in resemblance to God, the more does the image of God appear in him. That believers may attain to it, God assigns repentance as the goal towards which they must keep running during the whole course of their lives.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

For he contrasts shadows with revelation, and absence with manifestation.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

When God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him.

Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.

Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.