Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

I believe that music is God's voice.

Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.