#spiritual

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #protestantism #sacraments

On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#french #spirituality #catholicism

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #crazy #god #jesus-shock #philosophy

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #god #jesus-shock #ontological-oxymoron #ontology

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christianity #eternal-father #god #god-father #spirituality

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. ↗

— Sai Baba

#cleansing #complete #different #different kinds #difficulties

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. ↗

— Sai Baba

#jungle #lost #man #meaning #negative

In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#developments #feel #feeling #forget #listing

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#cause #fight #going #i #physical

Spiritual matters should be private. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#private #should #spiritual