What’s Your Spiritual Type?—Take the Quiz

Not every soul prays the same way — and that is by design.

The Christian tradition has long recognized that God draws different people through different doors: the door of reason, the door of mystical union, the door of faithful duty, the door of spontaneous service. Your temperament is not an obstacle to holiness. It is the shape of your particular path toward it.

Similar to the work of mid-20th-century Episcopal priest Urban T. Holmes, we can break down a person’s spiritual approach along two axes: Mind/Heart and Contemplative/Expressive. Doing so, we get four quadrants in which most people will fall: Intellectual, Devotional, Servant, and Dutiful as shown in the Spiritual Types Matrix. 

Just as there are four main personality types, there are four main approaches to spirituality. Take the short five-minute survey here to discover your own spiritual type. A summary of each type is to be found below the survey.

Take this short survey to discover your spiritual type and the saint who walked your road before you.