Spirituality Quote by Aby Warburg

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in the Christian…

— Paul Scalia

“The Word of God and the doctrinal teaching of the Church are still heard, but souls that desire to turn toward God and to…

— Robert Sarah

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

“...relics and churches, paintings and sculptures and holy places, were all just tools, all serving the same purpose: to bring a seeking soul into…

— Sam Cabot

“Religious fetichism finds its original motive in the delusion that its object, i.e., the idol, is not a mere symbol, but possesses divine attributes,…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

“a post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of that, then…

— Neal Stephenson

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“A future priest, I faced her as before an altar: one of her cheeks was the Epistle and the other the Gospel. Her mouth…

— Machado de Assis

“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.”

— Kelly M. Kapic