Quotes about Spirituality

Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world. And some of these have so honed that inner sight that they can even tell where a holy spark has fallen, notice its glow in the very place you would least expect it. The worse the place, the more fervently the spark gleams, flickers— and the warmer and purer is its light.

Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty.

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century