Quotes about Spirituality

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

Adjusting our understanding of God isn't a sign of weak faith, nor is it an attack on faith—it is faith.

A faith that eats its own not only drives people out but also sends up a red flare to the rest of humanity that Christianity is just another exclusive members-only club, and that Jesus is a lingering relic of antiquity, rather than a powerful, present-defining spiritual reality; a means of gaining power rather than relinquishing it. And who needs that, really?

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.