Quotes About Spirituality

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.

Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

To worship is to ascribe to God things that are true about him until we actually believe that truth and live according to it.

To find meaning is to find the connection between ourselves and everyone else. We need to know where we belong and how our efforts affect our world. Whether or not we are people of faith, we are curious about eternal things. Even if we try to shelve our spiritual questions, our subconscious minds continue to wonder.

Ask your friends what God has been teaching you about himself. Small groups can also be useful for facilitating these kinds of relationships.

Churches don't need programs so much as they need cultures of discipling, cultures where each member prioritizes the spiritual health of others.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

In what ways has God changed you to become more holy because of Jesus' blessing? How is God inviting you to make further changes in your life to live at greater levels of obedience and holiness to reflect Christ more?

It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

I cannot think of any Christian person, family, church, ministry, or tribe that would not benefit from more Jesus!

Corporate worship is to be God-centered.

Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

In my own Examen, then, I praydream—prayerfully daydream. I concretely imagine how I might approach the next twenty-four hours if I were to be God's hands and feet and voice.

As I grow in my prayer life, my soul becomes a delightfully cluttered attic, filled with random graces that do not all fit together in some perfectly ordered system. The purpose of some graces will be immediately apparent in my life, but the meaning of others might evade me for a while. I must resist the temptation to clean up the messiness of my graces and must not try to come up with immediate answers for the questions that arise from them.