Quotes About Spirituality

Not understanding is OK. Restricting our spiritual life to what we understand is not. It is immaturity at best. Such a controlling spirit is destructive to the development of a Christ-like nature. God responds to faith but will not surrender to our demands for control.

What's the solution? To meditate on the Word and give ourselves every opportunity to remember what is true.

Re" means to go back. "Pent" is like the penthouse, the top floor of a building. Repent, then, means to go back to God's perspective on reality.

In learning how God speaks to us I've also learned that besides unusual coincidences

Giving place to the Presence of God as our greatest joy and treasure is not a trick we use to get miracles. But the Father cannot be adequately represented without miracles. They are essential in revealing His nature.

to follow Him, we must be willing to follow off the map—to go beyond what we know. To do so successfully we must recognize His presence above all.

Anything I can get from the Word without God will not change my life. It is closed to insure that I remain dependent on the Holy Spirit. It

Let's get this straight: God is good all of the time. The devil is bad all of the time. We do ourselves a tremendous service to remember the difference between the two.

Moses experienced this amazing relationship of friendship with God under an inferior covenant. And it is improper to expect superior blessings from an inferior covenant.

WHETHER OR NOT we believe that Heaven is open does not negate the truth that it is. Our thoughts do not alter the open heaven over our lives; instead, they determine whether or not we partake of this reality. Jesus Christ secured an open heaven for every single Spirit-indwelt believer. This is a fact. The question is: Do our minds agree with this fact or do they entertain a lie?

The measure we are aware of our need for Him is usually the measure we become aware of Him. It really is all about the Presence. It's about hosting Him.

Trading anything for more of God really is the greatest deal ever offered to mankind.

My life reflects what I see with my heart.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

The quest for the face of God has two central dimensions—the quest for His presence and the quest for His favor.

The realm beyond reason is the world of obedience to God.

Jesus heals the whole person.

Busyness is an enemy of true Kingdom experience.

Many present-day movements have made a virtue out of staying the course without a God experience. To make matters worse, those who speak subjectively of an experience are often considered suspect, and even dangerous.

Billy Graham is credited with saying, "Ninety-five percent of today's church activities would continue if the Holy Spirit were removed from us. In the early Church, ninety-five percent of all her activities would have stopped if the Holy Spirit were removed." I

Anyone who doesn't have an experience with God, doesn't know God." He is a person, not a philosophy or a concept.

we must sacrifice our need to be right, to understand or explain things. We have to trust Him enough to let Him shatter our boxes of understanding and lead us into deeper realms of His truth.

But in reality, the Bible is a closed book. Anything I can get from the Word without God will not change my life. It is closed to insure that I remain dependent on the Holy Spirit.

Learning to host the Presence of God is the biggest challenge of the Christian life.