“My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 157 of 1176
“God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.”
“The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.”
“Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.”
“Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.”
“The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.”
“The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.”
“We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.”
“Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.”
“Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness”
“A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.”
“God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.”
“Eternity forbids thee to forget.”
“It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.”
“The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”
“It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.”
“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”
“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”
“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”