Quotes About Spirituality

Love is another heavenly grace; but faith gathers the fuel that makes this fire.

And I pray, what is our life in this world but a dark night of temptation?

The Christian's life is a continual wrestling. He is, as Jeremiah said of himself, born 'a man of strife.' Or what the prophet [said] to Asa, may be said to every Christian; 'From hence thou shalt have wars:' from thy spiritual birth to thy nat ural death; from the hour when thou first didst set thy face to heaven, till thou shalt set thy foot in heaven.

Well, Christian, prize thou the word, fed savourily on the word, whether it be dished forth in a sermon at the public, or in a conference with some Christian friend in private, or in a more secret duty of reading and meditation by thy solitary self.

What! thy stammering prayers make music in God's ear!

A weak hand with a sincere heart is able to turn the key in prayer.

This is thy birth-day; thou wert before, but beganst to live when Christ began to live in thee. The

Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That

Such is the weak constitution of grace, that it can neither well bear smiles or frowns from God without a snare; as one said of our English nation,[2] it cannot well bear liberty nor bondage in the height. So neither can the soul.

Had God made thee rich and great in the world, but not holy, he had but given thee stock to trade with for hell. These

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul.

Prayer is a solemn work as any thou canst go about in thy whole lifetime.

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul. That day thou wert born again, an heir to heaven was born.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer and not slacken in our affections. Those watches which are made to go longer than ordinary at one winding do commonly lose towards the end.

The word of God hath the power of conversion, which none but God—who is the 'God of all grace'—can produce.

It was a sweet speech of a dying saint, 'That he was going to change his place but not his company.

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.

True faith is prayerful. Prayer, it is the child of faith; and as the child bears his father's name upon him, so doth prayer the name of faith.

Prayer, it is the very natural breath of faith.

So in the Christian there are many graces, but one new creature.

And so when thou art tempted to any sin, look not on it as a single sin, but as having all other sins in its belly.

By 'praying always,' saith he, he exhorts us to pray in prosperity as well as adversity; and not then to intermit the practice of this duty because not driven to it by such outward pres sing necessities.

Some books are learned at once reading, but the gospel is a mystery that will take up more than thy lifetime to understand it.