Spirituality Quote by James Joyce

“but more often he would be alone, feeling through a certain quick instinct, which was almost a divination, that the secrets of art are…

— Oscar Wilde

“He took a mental picture of this moment’s happy scene to carry with him into the darkness of that dreadful place where he had…

— Elizabeth Garden

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which…

— Victor Hugo

“At that point in time, the need to be myself had become a competing desire with my priesthood, but I didn’t quite understand that…

— Charles Benedict

“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature…

— Andrew Lang

“This praise, though far from fulsome, gave me pleasure and that is to my shame. But there was something in him, some power of…

— Barry Unsworth

“As he stood there, the audience was forgotten. The past, with all its mistakes and suffering, its doubt and sin, came before him for…

— Harold Bell Wright