Quotes About Spirituality

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

The final answer is that God rewards fasting because fasting expresses the cry of the heart that nothing on the earth can satisfy our souls besides God. God must reward this cry because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

The best thing in the universe is to be united to Christ. To be in Christ. To enjoy union with Christ.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

Not to enjoy God is to dishonor Him.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

Prayer is the form of faith that connects us today with the grace that will make us adequate for tomorrow's ministry.

God uses means to awaken joy in himself

No one ever said that they learned their deepest lessons of life, or had their sweetest encounters with God, on the sunny days. People go deep with God when the drought comes. That is the way God designed it. Christ aims to be magnified in life most clearly by the way we experience him in our losses.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.

So the question we need to ask today is this: if the teaching in our church was limited to the songs that we sing, how well taught would we be? How well would we know God? We should make it our aim not only to preach the whole counsel of God but to sing it, as well.

God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.