Quotes about Spiritual

Only Christ can give us food that satisfies our spiritual hunger and gives everlasting

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse

Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

It lays down a   clear distinction between spiritual and civil government, in order to   inform us that outward subjection does not prevent us from having   within us a conscience free in the sight of God.