Quotes about Spirituality

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

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.