Quotes About Spirituality

Christian friendships do not simply help us bask in the sunshine of God's grace; they also help us to roll up our sleeves and strive after holiness.

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.

Ultimately, my real problem is a worship disorder.

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

As we live with each other in the middle of the already and the not yet, we need more than elevated emotion and accurate understanding. We need eyes to see this one amazing reality: we are Christ's and he is ours. We need to see that it is spiritually impossible for us to ever be alone. His amazing resources of grace are constantly at our disposal.

sin sneaks up on us over time.

In short, we are called to help each other see the unseen reality of our active, present, and personal God.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals. The gift of words calls us to live and speak in a God-focused manner. One of our greatest mistakes in communication is to take words as our own to use as we please.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it

for a Christian whose hope is in an invisible God, seeing the unseen is essential. 24

Or do you move into conflict with a God-centered perspective?

What resulted from our collaboration is not just an examination, but an actual example of broken people in broken community experiencing the reconciling grace of God.

Knowledge of doctrine is not the same as Christian maturity and victory over sin.

Understand that conflict is one way God works in our lives

True human community only arises out of communion with God

but God wants to bring us to the end of ourselves so that we would see our need for a relationship with him as well as with others.

If I consciously live in light of the fact that I am full in Christ, I will ask for forgiveness whether or not I get to watch the game.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

An entrenched refusal to forgive is a sign that you have not known God's amazing forgiveness yourself.

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension

The hope of the gospel invites us to a holy dissatisfaction with all of our relationships, even—especially—those with few major problems.