Quotes About Spirituality

A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both for the kind and the duration. A contented spirit says, 'let God apply what medicine he pleases and let it remain as long as it will, I know that when it has done it's cure and eaten the venom of sin out of my heart, God will take it off again.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

Daily bread may make us live comfortably but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.

Though God is the fountain of grace—yet the saints are the pipes which transmit the living streams to others.

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: "they were pricked in their heart" (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing.

Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade—but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.

A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.

The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.

Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.

The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.

Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.

This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:

Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the assembly, but never look at their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at church, though they have not been with God there.

They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing' (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.

Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?

Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.

the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing—and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.