“Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 250 of 1176
“When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.”
“Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.”
“A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
“Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.”
“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words”
“Salvation is God's way of making us real people.”
“For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.”
“The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.”
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
“Conscience is God present in man.”
“Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.”
“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.”
“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere”
“And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same.”
“Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.”
“Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.”
“When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.”