“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 232 of 1176
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.”
“Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”
“God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.”
“Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”
“The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."”
“Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.”
“The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.”
“Death is an ascension to a better library.”
“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.”
“One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.”
“Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.”
“If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.”
“In our good works nothing is our own.”
“...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.”
“Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?”
“If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.”
“Compound interest is proof of gods existence.”
“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”