Quotes About Spirituality

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

Often we fear the most difficult experiences of life only to discover that these are the experiences that bring Jesus Christ closer to us.

I am one with the Force," he said to himself and to the universe at once.

When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.

A higher power was never a crutch but a scaffold. Faith kept me steady when I needed it most.

When we live as though we were lords of our own life, capable of meeting our own needs, we are living in the flesh. When we treat people, possessions, or achievements as though they were the source of our worth and significance rather than God, we are living in the flesh. In fact, insofar as we live as though God were not present, moment-by-moment, and as though this wasn't the most important aspect of any present moment, we are living in the flesh.

Can I bring the Lord back into my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? I choose to make the rest of my life an experiment in answering this question. Frank Laubach1

For we are only as healthy as our picture of God is accurate. The

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human. The

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.

our knowledge of God, our salvation, and our spiritual growth all depend on our keeping our eyes fixed singularly on Jesus Christ.

If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God's Word to have more credibility than our present feelings. Take

I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses." The

The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[

The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them.

But then, why did the mechs have no religion?

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

We are made out of stars, you and I.

But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

This is why killing and stealing are wrong—not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them we would not move toward the ultimate complexity that is God, with the rest of the universe.