Home / Topics / Spiritual Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Browse 12844 quotes about Spiritual.

Spiritual Quotes

“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just as we fast with our stomach, we should fast with our tongue. Likewise, we should fast with our eyes; i.e. not look at agitating things, not allow your eyes freedom to roam, not to look shamelessly and without fear. Similarly, arms and legs should be restrained from doing any evil acts.”

Should Looks Eye Spiritual Evil Sin Arms Legs Tongue Stomach Moderation Arms And Legs

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.”

Men Spiritual Sin Meditating

Book:The history of Henry Milner

Source: The history of Henry Milner

“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life”

“In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.”

Men Needs May Sometimes Reason Body Spiritual Dies Sin Grace Sick Accounts Medicine Saint Spiritual Life Confession Sacraments Penance

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.”

Whole Spiritual Order Loses Sin Benefits Advantage Concern Catholic Whole Life Customs Amendments

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness. Believing on Christ and following Him delivers from both. In His fellowship the believer is delivered from the power of darkness, from the power of sin and from ignorance as to spiritual things.”

Men Believe Light Christian Spiritual Christ Sin Moral Darkness Ignorance Walking Accounts Following Believer Fellowship Spiritual Darkness

Author:Arno C. Gaebelein

“Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.”

Needs Spiritual Sin Salvation Illness Sinner

Book:The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)

Source: The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)

“If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.”

Ifs Men Spiritual Spirit Sin Forever Sake Disappear

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.”

Whole Government Spiritual Sin Sacrifice Blood Israel Ritual Typical Calvary

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!”

Mind Believe Spiritual Sin Virtue Don't Believe Limitation Statutes

Author:Margaret Deland

“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.”

Men Spiritual Fall Jesus Sin Grace Blood Higher Blessing Authority Depth Deeper Backgrounds Height Dependent Collapse Grace Of God Publicity Cleansing Staggering Pinnacle Blood Of Jesus

Author:Alan Redpath

“Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.”

Source: Soteriology, eschatology

“The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.”

Soul Spiritual Sin Blood Birth Disease Crosses Sick Heal Spots Remedy

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament. When we do this with a sincere heart, with real intent, forsaking our sins, and renewing our commitment to God, the Lord provides a way whereby sins can be forgiven from week to week. Simply eating the bread and drinking the water will not bring that forgiveness. We must prepare and then partake with a broken heart and contrite spirit. The spiritual preparation we make to partake of the sacrament is essential to receiving a remission of our sins.”

“Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.”

Heart Soul Light Spiritual Sin Grace Objects Worship Raised Operations Flames Suitable Worship God Spiritual Light

Book:The Existence and Attributes of God

Source: The Existence and Attributes of God

“Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.”

Wanted Spiritual Christ Sin Leader Authority Threat Jew Scary Expected Rulers Rescue Spiritual Leader

Author:Paul Weyrich

“A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.”

Heart Soul Spiritual Sin Watches Duty Calling Performances Tender Hearts

Book:The Acceptable Sacrifice

Source: The Acceptable Sacrifice

“The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

Self Age Spiritual Desire Sin Grief Imagine Ultimate Hunger Old Age Thirst Hunger And Thirst Grief And Death

Book:Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

Source: Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

“The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels her renewal. But if you leave your spiritual father in a state of confusion, this means that you did not confess purely and did not forgive your brother all of his sins from your heart.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Heart Mean Soul States Christian Spiritual Spirit Father Religious Sin Brother Holy Forgiving Confusion Holy Spirit Orthodox Renewal Your Brother

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.”

Men Inspirational Firsts Christian Spiritual Suffering Passion Religious Sin Cutting Humility Latter Orthodox

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.”

Firsts Use Spiritual Law Sin Sentences Convince Sinner Void Spiritual Life

Book:The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.”

Spiritual Desire Evil Jesus Sin Saws Discovery Consequence Salvation Convinced Enlightened Seeming Wretchedness Consequences Of Sin

Book:The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

“I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just the foot soldiers in the spiritual war that Mike Bickle and Lou Engle are waging against what they consider sin. They will say it is biblical truth, but the Bible says many things, and you don't see anyone saying that slavery is okay or that we should not eat shellfish. Why the fascination with sex?”

Should War Kids Spiritual Young Fighting Sex Sin Feet Okay Slavery Soldier Iraq Terrorism Compare Biblical Mike Fascination Shellfish Biblical Truth

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.”

May Real Christian Spiritual Grows Sin Poor Rooms Results Views Quality Modern Meetings Absence Repentance Inquiry Initials Inadequate Spiritual Experience Sinfulness Poor Quality

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer