Spiritual quotes

Dhammapada 205, Max Müller translation; the verse joins solitude and tranquillity with “drinking in the law,” preserving its religious context.

James 1:17 in the King James Version; the verse continues with language about God’s constancy.

The Imitation of Christ, Book II, Chapter X, “Of gratitude for the Grace of God,” William Benham translation, Project Gutenberg #1653. The sentence appears in the chapter’s fifth paragraph and treats gratitude for even the least divine benefit as part of humility; this remains explicitly Christian devotional teaching rather than a general promise of material reward.

Religio Medici, represented by Project Gutenberg #586. Browne develops this sentence inside an explicitly Christian natural-theology argument about providence, creation and the beauty of living forms. It is historical religious philosophy, not a scientific definition of nature.

Ethics, Part V, Proposition XLII, R. H. M. Elwes translation represented by Project Gutenberg #3800. ‘Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself’ introduces Spinoza's proposition linking blessedness, knowledge, virtue and control of the emotions. It remains translation-mediated seventeenth-century metaphysical ethics, not a universal psychological measurement or clinical prescription.

Fruit-Gathering, poem LXXIX; Project Gutenberg #6522. This excerpt completes a prayer against anxious craving to be saved and retains that spiritual context.

Tao Teh King, Chapter 71, James Legge translation, Project Gutenberg #216.

Psalm 100:4 in the King James Version; thanksgiving is presented as the posture for entering worship.

Psalm 42:11, King James Version; the psalm repeatedly addresses a downcast and disquieted soul while directing attention toward hope.

Psalm 104:24, King James Version; the larger psalm surveys creatures, landscapes, seasons, and provision as parts of creation.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The invocation of God and “Best” is retained as part of Keller’s religious moral framework.

Psalm 130:4 in the King James Version.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, paragraph 339, represented by Project Gutenberg #654. This is Bunyan’s explicitly Christian autobiographical reflection after describing fear of imprisonment, death and spiritual abandonment; it remains devotional testimony rather than general mental-health or adversity advice.

Hebrews 8:12 in the King James Version; concluding clause of the new-covenant promise.

Genesis 1:31, King James Version; the verse concludes the creation sequence with an assessment of everything that had been made.

Dhammapada 82, F. Max Müller translation, Project Gutenberg #2017. The verse belongs to a Buddhist canonical collection and remains a textual source voice rather than a quotation by a modern individual author.

Poem in Poems: First Series (1890), represented by its opening line for source disambiguation; Project Gutenberg #12242. Its theological language belongs to the lyric speaker.

Out from the Heart, “The Nature and Power of Mind,” represented New York R. F. Fenno & Company edition, Project Gutenberg #74178. Allen contrasts an undisciplined attitude toward experience with a mind disciplined by his moral ideals; the passage is historical conduct-of-life teaching, not medical or therapeutic guidance.

Villette, late in the novel; spoken in the first-person narrative voice of the fictional Lucy Snowe. The religious hope belongs to Lucy’s character and scene, not a direct autobiographical declaration by Charlotte Brontë.

Leaves of Grass (1855), untitled first-edition poem later known as “Song of Myself,” printed page 56 (Wikisource scan page 62). The line belongs to the poem’s final movement, later numbered section 52; the 1855 record remains tied to the unnumbered first edition rather than inheriting later section structure.

Psalm 146:5 in the King James Version; opening description of the person whose hope is in God.

Amiel's Journal, entry dated July 16, 1848, in Mary Augusta Ward’s public-domain English translation of selections from Journal Intime.

Dhammapada 36 in F. Max Müller’s public-domain translation; the verse follows immediately after the teaching that a tamed mind brings happiness.

A Christmas Carol, Stave Five.

Dhammapada 201, Max Müller translation; the line appears in the chapter on happiness and contrasts competitive victory with contentment.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. “Attain heaven” belongs to Keller’s explicitly religious language and is not secularized into a guaranteed outcome.

Matthew 5:44, King James Version; Jesus commands love, blessing, and good action toward enemies within the Sermon on the Mount.

Psalm 46:10 in the King James Version; the verse places stillness and trust inside a psalm about turmoil and refuge.

The Story of My Heart (1883), Chapter III, Project Gutenberg #2317. The inherited Chapter I note is corrected: ‘It is eternity now’ occurs in Jefferies’s tumulus meditation after he writes that, recognising his inner consciousness / psyche, he cannot understand time. It is speculative spiritual autobiography and metaphysical-poetic reflection, not a scientific theory of time, physics or consciousness.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II, Valley of Humiliation, represented by Project Gutenberg #39452, the Jesse Lyman Hurlbut-edited Every Child Can Read edition that includes the Part II episode. Mr. Great-heart and the pilgrims see a shepherd boy feeding his father's sheep and hear him sing ‘He that is down needs fear no fall...’; the song is followed by Great-heart's praise of the boy's heart's-ease. The previous #131 fallback does not contain this represented Part II passage, so the evidence layer moves to #39452. The stanza remains embedded Christian-allegorical character song rather than Bunyan autobiography or secular clinical advice about humility.

John 13:34, King James Version.

Isaiah 61:3, King James Version; the verse describes consolation for mourners through a sequence of restorative exchanges.

Gitanjali, poem 4, in Tagore’s own prose translations from Bengali; Project Gutenberg #7164. The omitted continuation explicitly attributes the strength to act to the divine addressee, so the line remains religious rather than generic productivity advice.

Dhammapada 202 in Max Müller’s translation; “rest” belongs to the Buddhist religious context of release and should be read within that framework.

Psalm 34:18 in the King James Version; the verse speaks of divine nearness to the brokenhearted.

“A Child’s Grave at Florence,” stanza XXII; Project Gutenberg #31015. The poem commemorates a child who died in 1849 and frames consolation through Christian faith.

Matthew 5:9, King James Version.

Matthew 6:12 in the King James Version.

Dhammapada 197, Chapter XV “Happiness,” Max Müller translation; the verse is ethical and spiritual counsel about non-hatred, not a requirement to remain in unsafe circumstances.

The Way of Peace; Allen contrasts temporary comfort with a spiritual peace that he says remains stable through trial.

My Confession, Leo Wiener translation; the question appears in Tolstoy’s investigation of how finite human life might be related to an infinite reality.

A Letter to a Friend, represented by Project Gutenberg #586. The sentence follows Browne’s description of his deceased friend’s desire for public and lasting charities. Its image of foundations in heaven is explicitly Christian consolation and should not be detached into a secular factual promise about charitable intentions.

To Cuba and Back, Chapter XVI, “Havana: Worship, Etiquette and Humanitarianism,” Project Gutenberg #33455. Dana reflects that poetry and music are natural expressions of the deepest emotions while observing Catholic worship in Havana. It is nineteenth-century first-person travel, aesthetic and religious observation rather than an empirical law about emotion or communication.

Phaedrus, around Stephanus 249d–e, Socrates’s palinode and description of inspired recollection of true beauty. Benjamin Jowett English, Project Gutenberg #1636. This is Socrates speaking in Plato’s dialogue; the claim comes after his charioteer-and-soul allegory and should not be extracted as a universal account of romance.

Tao Teh King, chapter 16, James Legge translation; the following lines connect stillness with the recurring return of things to their root.

Phaedrus, around Stephanus 245b–c, in Socrates’s second speech (palinode) to Phaedrus following his retraction of the anti-lover argument. Benjamin Jowett English, Project Gutenberg #1636; the complete sentence occurs in the dramatic speech after examples of prophetic, religious and poetic inspiration. The divine origin of love is a claim of this ancient philosophical argument, not independently established evidence.

Amiel's Journal, 1851 diary entry, translated by Mary Augusta Ward; the passage belongs to Amiel’s introspective effort to reach clarity beneath divided feeling.

Dhammapada 39, Max Müller translation; its religious vocabulary belongs to the text’s discipline of watchful thought and should not be reduced to a clinical claim about anxiety.

Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. “Holiness” and the surrounding six-days/seventh-day contrast are explicitly religious.

“Hope and Patience,” in The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume II (1893), Project Gutenberg #9984. The bird-and-shell image is a poetic metaphor rather than a literal psychological model.