Quotes About Spirituality

The effort to grasp the great truths of revelation imparts freshness and vigor to all the faculties. It expands the mind, sharpens the perceptions, and ripens the judgment. The study of the Bible will ennoble every thought, feeling, and aspiration as no other study can. It gives stability of purpose, patience, courage, and fortitude; it refines the character, and sanctifies the soul.

Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.

Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the happiest people in the world.—My Life Today, p. 161.

Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!

the question for us is not, "What will the world say?" but, "How shall I, claiming to be a Christian, treat the habitation God has given me? Shall I work for my highest temporal and spiritual good by keeping my body as a temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, or shall I sacrifice myself to the world's ideas and practices?"—

Resulta difícil mantener a la mente indisciplinada fijada sobre temas provechosos. Pero si no se emplean debidamente los pensamientos, la religión no puede florecer en el alma. La mente debe preocuparse de cosas sagradas y eternas, de lo contrario encontrará gozo en pensamientos superficiales e insignificantes

It is impossible for those who indulge the appetite to attain to Christian perfection.—

With the money that we had earned at our trade, my sister and I provided ourselves with clothes. We would hand our money to mother, saying, "Buy so that, after we have paid for our clothing, there will be something left to give for missionary work." And she would do this, thus encouraging in us a missionary spirit.

The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within—when the sunshine of heaven fills the heart and is revealed in the countenance.—Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 383, 384.

Appetite must not be your god.—

The patchwork religion is not of the least value with God. He requires the whole heart.

she had never thought of the young as needing religion, because they always had so much else. For the elderly, especially for the elderly with husbands who were even more elderly but refused to admit it, she considered faith indispensable.

God will preserve all who walk in the path of obedience; but to depart from it is to venture on Satan's ground.

Let us keep drawing near to God, and He will draw near to us. Then, as one, we shall reach upward to Him. The churches will be as gardens of the Lord, under His cultivation. God's people will be trees of righteousness, planted by the Lord, and watered with the river of life. [171]

Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess.

Iconographers,

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

i believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.

bunny was a good soul and a strong believer but she would have been that way whether she went to church or not, wouldn't she. church doesn't make you a better person.

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

We have the zero-point field within us. Individually, each of us may not have a square yard of zero-point field energy in us, but two or three of us together do, and the Bible says that whatever two or three agree on will be done. So we truly have the power within us and around us to move many, many mountains.