#ritual

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#goodness #inspirational #spiritual-growth #inspirational

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #humility #inspirational #spirituality #suffering

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world ↗

— Aristotle

#spirituality #inspirational

The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity. ↗

— Fred C. White

#inspiration #spiritual-life #inspirational

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #cross #excess-love #god

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#gods #humanism #humanity #hypocrisy #hypocrites

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that? ↗

— St. Bonaventure

#christianity #inspirational #knowledge #life #religion

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Krister Stendahl

#spiritual #inspirational

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents... ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#spiritual #thankfulness #inspirational