Quotes About Spirituality

I think God made us to desire beauty. But I'm learning we have to first find our beauty in God.

Good," Pop slapped his thighs and pushed to his feet. "Number one job of a preacher. Know the Word. Live it, pray it, sing it.

You're making this about your worthiness instead of God's

I want to discover the deeper layers of His word, understand the tender mercies of His heart.

Humble and simple, he made her see God was accessible.

In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

If he was going to figure out his life, he had a feeling he needed more time on his knees, lifting up holy hands without doubt.

Humility is a magnet for His affection.

I thought life's answers were out there somewhere. Now I realize the answers are in me, in my faith in Jesus and His love for me.

Finding a seat in the back, she worshipped with the early service congregation, eyes closed, arms held wide, her heart offering it all to the One who wooed her with love and grace. Unconditional and uncompromising. Perfectly done on His part, not so much hers. But

Humility is a magnet for God's affection,

The Lord and I aren't exactly on speaking terms.

True, but still, I'd love a peek beyond the veil, as they say.

I don't understand it all, but when heaven decides to invade earth, who are we to argue?

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world. Love must be, then, an act of truth-telling, a baring of mind and spirit just as ardent as the baring of the body. Truth and passion were one, and each impossible without the other.

God was ejected when we traveled from the closed world to the infinite universe. We were also ejected.

Over the years I have learned that "cleaning up one's act" may be far less important than consecrating one's life. It may be possible to use everything. A ruthless man may be able to open doors that a more kindly and traditionally spiritual person could knock on forever. Without judgment, many things can be made holy.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

When we recognize the spark of God in others, we blow on it with our attention and strengthen it. No matter how deeply it has been buried or for how long .... When we bless someone, we touch the unborn goodness in them and wish it well.

Like all genuine prayers, this prayer is a powerful way of embracing life, finding a home in any outcome

Irrepressible hope, unsurpassable peace, inexplicable joy, unfailing comfort, patient endurance, and amazing grace await us in the dark times if we'll seek Him in them. Finding these treasures, we experience calm despite the storm. We develop spiritual beauty and spiritual strength—and others are drawn to us in their own times of need.

Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like..." p 55

For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady.