The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can't be explained.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Our spirituality is our opening to one another as whole human beings, each different and precious, and our exploring how we can truly learn to love.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

And he who would be a friend with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.