Quotes about Spirituality
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
— John Calvin
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
In the Eucharist we can find all the dimensions of communion: God communicates himself to us, we enter into communion with him, the participants of the sacrament enter into communion with one another, and creation as a whole enters through man into communion with God. All this takes place in Christ and the Spirit, who brings the last days into history and offers to the world a foretaste of the Kingdom.
— John Zizioulas
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
— John Donne
Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.
— John Donne
Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
— John Donne
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
Our two souls therefore which are one,Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to airy thinness beat.
— John Donne
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
— John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
— John Donne
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
— John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
— John Donne