Quotes About Spirituality

is a command of God to pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. 5:17. The meaning is—not that we should be always praying—but that we should every day set some time apart for prayer.

Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit!

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

A good Christian is not a grave to bury God's mercies, but a temple to sing His praises.

A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

Si has escuchado mucho de Cristo, y todavía no puedes decir con sujeción y humildad, «mi Jesús», no te ofendas si te digo que el diablo puede recitar su credo igual de bien que tú.

Until the heart is pure, all our holy things (that is, our religious duties) are polluted. They are but splendid sins!

He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.

A godly person chooseth Christ and grace before the most illustrious things under the sun:

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.

Worry that is either untrusting or distracting is very dishonorable to God. It

Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labor to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you.

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.

We are never more precious in gods eyes than when we are lepers in our own.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

All the legal washings and purifications were but types and emblems representing Christ's blood. This blood whitens the black soul.

Conscience is God's diocese, where none has right to visit, but He who is the Bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25

The reason why God has given us a thinking faculty, is that we may think on his Name. When our thoughts run out in vain things, we should think with ourselves thus: Did God give us this talent to misemploy? Did he give us thoughts that we should think of everything but him?

The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!

Be often among the godly. They are the salt of the earth—and will help to season you. Their counsel may direct you; their prayers may enliven you. Such holy sparks may be thrown into your breasts as may kindle devotion in you. It is good to be among the saints, to learn the trade of godliness: "He who walks with wise men shall be wise" (Proverbs 13:20).