Quotes About Spirituality

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

I don't believe God is going to fill anybody with the Holy Spirit until the purpose of their heart is to glorify Jesus and to glorify God.

those who are desperate enough to know Him, seek Him, and obey Him will find themselves enjoying a richer and fuller life in Christ.

Tamara looked all around the inside of the car. "Yeah, I see I need to come to your church," Tamara said. "Because what I'm hearing at my church only puts me to sleep. Sleep is good for dreaming, but I'd prefer to see my dreams become reality. I want to touch my dreams. I want to sit down in the seat of my dreams. I definitely see that I need more of the right tools in life to do it right.

She had told her son praying about a situation was like taking the fight to God and letting Him go to battle for us so many times as he grew up, but she never knew if he listened or believed her. Trish popped her fingers. "You got that right.

Going to God in the first place, is your acknowledgment of who He is in your life. So go on and ask your questions…

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

Al lettore Questo libro non è un'opera di fantasia. È un colloquio dell'autore con suo fratello morto. L'autore, scrivendo, cercava consolazione, non altro. Egli ha il rimorso di avere appena intuita la spiritualità del fratello, e troppo tardi. Queste pagine si offrono quindi come una sterile espiazione.

They gave me their names, asking me to forgive them and to pray for them. I would later learn how important it is not to keep a grudge against those who have died. In a mysterious way we 'hold them back' and they suffer if we do not forgive them. We keep them from the higher realm; they seem to remain chained and do not reach Heaven. We must forgive them.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

Charles Spurgeon once said: 'I looked at Christ, and the dove of peace flew into my heart. I looked at the dove, and it flew away.

Great thoughts come from the heart

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

God has never put any limit on you nor any one else. Concentrate on this one great fact until you feel yourself expanding and glowing with joy and love for everything and everybody.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.