Quotes About Spirituality

The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I'm not praying, is my prayer answered by God. All

would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives

Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.

Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, let each of us who has begun to taste the

The only humility that is really ours is not the humility we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us and actively live in our ordinary conduct.

Each day I place my trust in the mighty power of God and in the presence of Jesus, in whom I remain.

expect to abide in Him unless you will give Him that time.

meditations as here offered, and when we think we have

Jesus and with God. We all know the need of time for our meals each

Once again. It is only love that can fit us for the work of intercession.

Abiding in the Vine then comes to be nothing more or less than the restful surrender of the soul to let Christ have all and work all

When there is little prayer that can be answered, the Father is not glorified. It is a duty for the glory of God to live and pray so that our prayer can be answered. For the sake of God's glory, let us learn to pray well.

Never think of the riches of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus as treasures without a key, or of your way as a path without a light. Jesus, your wisdom, is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.

By faith you became partakers of the initial grace; by that same faith you can enjoy the continuous grace of abiding in Him.

The object of trial is just to draw you away from what is earthly, in order that you may turn to God and give Him time to unite your will with His perfect will.

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man.

The lower and the emptier a man lays himself before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of divine glory.

Do not live in your human imagination of what is possible. Live in the word - in the love and infinite faithfulness of the Lord Jesus.

How little we understand that we need enough time with God for His light to shine into the depths of our hearts and fill our lives.

is at the same time the highest and holiest

Humility is not so much a virtue along with the others, but is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all. God

All the exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, that they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and to depend alone upon God Himself, and in patience to await His good time and mercy. The waiting is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God's might working, and to make us in perfect patience place ourselves at His disposal.

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.