Spiritual Excellence Quotes

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

The newspaper people think we should still be back in the trash.... They really think Christians ought to be shabby, tacky, crummy, worthless people because we threaten them when we have things as nice as they have.... I’m excessive. Dear Lord, I’m excessive.... God is a great God. He deserves my best.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...&gt.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.