Quotes About Spirituality

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.

The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person—the Holy Spirit.

The two basic attitudes of life that must characterize genuine, biblical spirituality are thankfulness at all times and in all circumstances and the maintenance of unity in that part of the body of Christ.

The third preventive for callousness is the life of prayer (Heb. 4:14–16).

Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

Spirituality is a grownup yet growing relation to the Holy Spirit.

While this may simply be another way of saying that spirituality is Christian maturity, it tries to delineate more openly the factors of Spirit-control over a period of time.

By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

It is more important to be than to do, for if I am what God wants me to be, then I will do what He wants me to do. If I try to promote a program, however well-meaning, without personal holiness, it will be tainted by the defects of my life. It may lack the direction of full knowledge of the Word, or the discernment of maturity, or the direction that comes through unclouded fellowship with the Lord. Primarily we do not need to develop programs, but people.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Jesus has no less power, no less glory, no less authority than He had when He walked the shores of Galilee. God sees us that way - with power, authority, and His anointing within us.

Ask yourself: "How is it in heaven? Is there sickness, disease, poverty?" No. Then you have authority to bind it here on earth.

God does not see you the way you were. He sees you as a new creation. If you've been born again, the Bible says you-are the righteousness of God in Christ.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n'achète notre âme vide. - Il attend qu'on la solde.)

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.