Spiritual Necessity Quotes

Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.