Quotes About Spirituality

Believe me, once you have tasted worship—the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord—nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.

A. W. Tozer says, A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.

El amor que asciende es adoración; el amor que sale es afecto; pero el amor que se inclina es gracia».3

Cuando la gracia de Cristo ilumine su vida, descubrirá que no hace las cosas por temor, por vergüenza o por culpa, sino que las hace por amor.

En lugar de enfocarse en las obras de la carne, Jesús habló acerca del corazón. En lugar de exigir que el pecador cumpliera una larga lista de requisitos, hizo énfasis en la fe, aunque esta fuera tan pequeña como un grano de mostaza.

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

En realidad, la batalla más significativa por librar es la que se hace de rodillas. Aunque no estés involucrado de manera directa en el trabajo de evangelismo, abrirás oportunidades para los que sí lo hacen cuando estés más sobre tus rodillas. Cuando batallas en oración ante Dios, Él abre oportunidades para el testimonio donde antes no fue posible.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.[9]

John says, in effect, "In the beginning, God the Son created humanity and filled them with life. He then came to earth as a human to bring life again to humanity, which is spiritually dead because of sin.

En tercer lugar, la oración tranquiliza mi corazón. No puedo preocuparme y orar al mismo tiempo. Hago la una cosa o la otra. La oración me tranquiliza. Reemplaza a la ansiedad por un espíritu calmado. ¡No se pueden dar golpes con las rodillas cuando estamos arrodillados!

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.

the word murderer, let me put it another way. We are not sinners because we have committed sins. We sin because we are sinners. The

Own it all. Hold yourself accountable to God, and confess any sinful part. By doing so, you will have the necessary peace to make peace with your brother or sister. Do this, and you will leave a lasting positive impact on the people around you, even as a sinner.

Whatever form and shape prayer takes, our first concern is not to press God for the things we think we need or the matters we are concerned about, but rather a quest for God's presence and relationship.

If you're a humble believer set on doing your deity's will, then what are you doing spending the take on Lamborghinis and single malt?

Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.

If we know for certain that God sees all we do and all we are, we will not be tempted ask others to validate us by displaying our virtues, nor will we tempt others to judge us by displaying our sins. Only God can validate us; only God can judge.

There is an otherness inside us We never touch, no matter how far down our hands reach. It is the past, with its good looks and Anytime, Anywhere ... Our prayers go out to it, our arms go out to it Year after year, But who can ever remember enough?

I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out. I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed. I want to be entered and picked clean.