Spirituality Quote by James Baldwin

“He was always mindful of keeping his spirits in check lest they soar unreasonably high.”

— Kevin Purdy

“...he was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“But here, now, again, this was more than the body, or the mind, or the personality. It wasn't holy, that was a whole other…

— Patrick Ness

“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his…

— Tom Holland

“Strange how people yearn to become holy only after years of depravity.” She smiled knowingly. “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“The worship had already begun. It was my favorite part about the whole thing. There was something electric about everyone lifting their hands up…

— Hannah Brencher

“Holy sorrow refines the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

“For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.”

— Lan Samantha Chang

“There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf

“For he possessed a soul that could suffer but not stifle, and led a steady life beneath his mutability.”

— E.M. Forster