Quotes About Spirituality

35-38 Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever

One person says, "I don't feel like worshiping; therefore I am not going to church. I will wait till I feel like it and then I will go." Another says, "I don't feel like worshiping; therefore I will go to church and put myself in the way of worship." In the process she finds herself blessed and begins, in turn, to bless.

The people of Birmingham also have souls.

Theologian Karl Rahner was once asked if he believed in miracles. His reply? 'I live on miracles—I couldn't make it through a day without them.' Still another name for it is mystery.

The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.

The fusion is accomplished by reading these Scriptures slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully and obediently. This is the way the Bible has been read by most Christians for most of the Christian centuries, but it is not commonly read that way today. The reading style employed more often than not

the way we think of and respond to God is the most practical thing we do. In matters of everyday practicality, nothing, absolutely nothing, takes precedence over God.

As aparências enganam: a oração nunca é a primeira palavra, mas sempre a segunda. Deus tem a primeira palavra. A oração é uma fala que responde; ela não é primariamente "petição", mas "resposta".

by contemporary Christians is fast, reductive, information-gathering and, above all, practical. We read for what we can get out of it, what we can put to use, what we think we can use—and right now.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

Orientação espiritual significa levar a sério, com atenção e imaginação disciplinadas, o que os outros tomam com leviandade.

Todos deveriam conhecer a verdade de que ninguém é dotado de tamanha prudência e sabedoria a ponto de ser adequado a si mesmo na orientação de sua própria vida espiritual. A soberba é um guia cego e engana a muitos. A luz de nosso próprio julgamento é fraca e não conseguimos prever todos os perigos ou armadilhas e erros aos quais estamos propensos na vida do espírito.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Pastor, we think we might be on to something. That empty tomb—could that be an echo of the empty mercy seat of the ark? That the two angels in 'dazzling clothes' who gave witness at the empty tomb of Jesus might be an allusion to the two cherubim marking the emptiness that is fullness at the ark?

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

There is no model conversion. There is no prescribed ritual, whether emotional or liturgical. We are all different. God is the same and has the same salvation to work in us, but he creates an original story every time.

In a world where nearly everything can be weighed, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control, I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe.

We fill our minds with the stories of God's acts. Joy has a history. Joy is the verified, repeated experience of those involved in what God is doing. It is as real as a date in history, as solid as a stratum of rock in Palestine. Joy is nurtured by living in such a history, building on such a foundation.

Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.   Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!  

025 GOD, you are my God. I celebrate you. I praise you.

The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking.

But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus.

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego. Usually, for that to happen there must be a deliberate withdrawal from the noise of the day, a disciplined detachment from the insatiable self.

Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.