Quotes About Spirituality

We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.

The will to obey is the engine that pulls the train of spirituality in Christ. But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.

The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety of religion to which obedience is not regarded as essential.

That is the function of the will or heart: to organize our life as a whole, and, indeed, to organize it around God.

So God uses our self-knowledge or self-awareness, which is heightened and given a special quality by his presence and direction, to search us out and reveal to us the truth about ourselves and our world.

Theology" is a stuffy word, but it should be an everyday one.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

What God gets out of our lives—and, indeed, what we get out of our lives—is simply the person we become. It

Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What

We live from our depths—most of which we do not understand. "Do

That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer—real, two-way conversation with God—makes any difference. If

Satan's constant assault is aimed at our belief in God's goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan's main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.

Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is the only sane attitude.

The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of the Word of God. The church of God is present where people gather together in the power of the resurrected life of Jesus Christ.

It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.

Such planning should include identifying the things in your life that you believe trouble Jesus—impatience, overeating, lying, or whatever it may be for you.

The narrow gate is not, as so often assumed, doctrinal correctness. The narrow gate is obedience—and the confidence in Jesus necessary to it. We

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

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As you engage with others, ask Jesus to bless them. You can consciously will the peace, joy, and confidence that you are experiencing to pass from you, like "living waters," to those with whom you are interacting.

our relationship with Jesus, which he argued ultimately allows us to establish a relationship with the kingdom of God. This relationship is one of discipleship in which we learn to live our lives as Jesus would through progressively embodying and manifesting a Christlike character, which is attained through establishing a discipling relationship to Jesus.

Sit in the companionship of God—the one who shows up and can be seen.