Quotes About Spirituality

You see, like many who grew up in church, I once assumed the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, and then afterward we advance to deeper theological waters. But Scotty has helped me to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan is not to steer them beyond the gospel but to move them more deeply into it—that the gospel doesn't simply ignite the Christian life but is also the fuel that keeps Christians going and growing every day.

One of the occupational hazards of vocational ministry is equating doing things for Jesus and spending time with Jesus. The joy of being used by the Lord can mimic the delights of walking closely with the Lord, at least for a while. But preaching and applying the gospel to others is not the same thing as preaching and praying it deeper into one's own heart.

I am grateful that you brought me to Jesus but clueless about how you actually change your sons and daughters—I suffered much under the hands of bad theologies, man-centered remedies, and Christless formulas.

And you search our hearts to save us, not to shame us; to deliver us, not to demean us; to change us, not to chide us. You know my dignity and my depravity, my fears and my longings, my struggles with sin and my standing in Christ. No one but you knows how little or how much of the gospel I actually get.

May we come to the point where we'd sooner avoid oxygen and water than the means of grace.

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

Paradise was not far away when I died

Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.

The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.

You are like a rich man entering heaven/through the ear of a raindrop.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.