Pope Paul VI Quotes

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Our goal is self-transcendence

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.