Quotes about Spirituality

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

Father!—to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,God being with thee when we know it not.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.