Quotes About Spirituality

Once, while visiting the continent, Spurgeon was asked about the secret of his ministry. After a moment s pause Mr. Spurgeon said, "My people pray for me.

Psalms 1, 42, 73, 90, and 107.

He once said that "there are but two lessons for Christians to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the other is, to enjoy everything in God.

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself

No man can have the least ground of assurance that he hath seen Christ and his glory by faith, without some effects of it in changing him into his likeness. John Owen

In other words, in all my rejoicing over all the good things that God has made, God himself is the heart of my joy, the gladness of my joy. In all my rejoicing in everything, there is a central rejoicing in God. Every joy that does not have God as its central gladness is a hollow joy and in the end will burst like a bubble. This is what led Augustine to pray, "He loves thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for thy sake."2

One of the things pleasing in God's sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

God will be glorified both by the intensity of the present delight that we have in his beauty and by the intensity of the desires we have for more revelation of his fullness.

Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.

Emotions for God that do not spring from seeing God cannot honor God.

Te urjo pues, en el nombre de Jesús, a despertar y agrandar tu corazón, expandir tu mente y extender tus alas.

Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

Might God not ordain that his fullest blessings will come to the church when we prevail in prayer with the intensity of fasting? That kind of intensification of prayer is what fasting is. It's a physical exclamation point at the end of the sentence, "We hunger for you, O God, to come in power." It's a cry with our body, not just our soul: "I really mean it, LORD! This much, I hunger for you. I want the manifestation of you yourself more than I want food.

The Christian's holiness and happiness in God are not two separate realities. Happiness in God is the essence of holiness.

If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.

What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.

The coronavirus calls us to make God the all-important, pervasive reality in our lives. Our lives depend on him more than they depend on breath. And sometimes God takes our breath in order to throw us onto himself.

What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

And the essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. That is the root we must sever (daily!)—desiring anything more than God.

The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in his hand.

Toda buena obra debiera ser una revelación de la gloria de Dios.