Quotes About Spirituality

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

I was a sunburnt pagan now. I felt privy to mysteries.

Our conversation changed. It usually had a busy, must-say-everything edge to it, even during the long, lazy days of waiting for waves on Tavarua. But out in the lineup, once the swells started pumping, large pools of awe seemed to collect around us, hushing us, or reducing us to code and murmurs, as though we were in church. There was too much to say, too much emotion, and therefore nothing to say.

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.

The law of the conservation of energy is not simply a law of physics; it is a law of the whole moral universe, and

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

A pilot without his chart, a scholar without his book, and a soldier without his sword, are alike ridiculous. But, above all these, it is absurd for one to think of being a Christian, without knowledge of the word of God and some skill to use this weapon. - William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour

Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry out to God in true repentance, He will come at once to rescue you. The sooner you yield to the Spirit, the less damage is done to your soul.

one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

apply thyself to the use of those means which God hath appointed for the strengthening grace. If

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.

Prayer must be the key of the morning and lock of the night.

The praying Christian is the thriving Christian; whereas he that is infrequent or slothful in praying, is a waster.

To pray always may import as much as to pray in all conditions; that is, in prosperity as well as in adversity. So Calvin takes it: omni tempore perinde valet, atque tam prosperis quâm adversis—it holds at all times equally, and as much in prosperity as in adversity.

Third. It is holiness, and that maintained in its power, that capacitates us for communion with God in this life.

And here is all the devil gets; instead of destroying his faith which he aims at, he is the occasion of the refining of it, and thereby adding to its strength.

Him that hath not God before he dies, the devil shall have when he dies.