Quotes About Spirituality

by praying "his" prayers—the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed—we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven.

he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.*

evidently sown while the bishops slept (Mt 13:25).

From the beginning of his time until the end, Bonhoeffer maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade. Each morning he meditated for at least half an hour on a verse of Scripture. And he interceded for his friends and relatives, and for his brothers in the Confessing Church who were on the front lines or in concentration camps.

If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart.

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

Christ in us gives us over to death so that he can live within us. Thus our inner dying grows to meet that death from without. Christians receive their own death in this way, and in this way our physical death very truly becomes not the end but rather the fulfillment of our life with Jesus Christ.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who suffered for twenty years in the hellish prison camps he describes in that book, wrote: "Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

He who through faith is righteous shall live." Here I felt that I was altogether born again and

At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others.

But this other side of God's love—the good news, as it were—he seems not to have heard at all. At least not yet.

Heard the Bible read two hours—Pascal one hour and a quarter—meditation one hour and a quarter…. Pitt called and commended Butler's Analogy—resolved to write to him, and discover to him what I am occupied about: this will save me much embarrassment, and I hope give me more command both of my time and conduct.

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to enquire of him.

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

The religion of Christ is not a tidbit after one's bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing.

The religion of Christ is not a tidbit after one's bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing. People should at least understand and concede this if they call themselves Christian.

we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion

sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious." Barth

Theological work and real pastoral fellowship can only grow in a life which is governed by gathering round the Word morning and evening and by fixed times of prayer.

religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."21

Even if you were to knock my head off, God would still exist.