Quotes About Spirituality

Nothing outside of a living relationship with Christ can ever fill the emptiness inside.

More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel at making a living but often fail at making a life. We celebrate our prosperity but yearn for a purpose. We cherish our freedoms but long for connection. In an age of plenty, we feel spiritual hunger.

No form of submission to God could be simpler or clearer than just showing up at church on Sunday.

Like anything else, I think organized religion, like most human endeavors, is good when it's doing good and I think it's bad when it's doing bad.

Funny how your attitude about spirituality could change when the chips were down.

You see, it is not what comes against you that matters. It is who occupies you that counts. Christ, the guardian of your soul.

Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Only by depending on God's power can we offer worship truly worthy of his honor.

The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.

One of the first steps we should take in knowing God's voice is knowing God's heart.

As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. "Don't seek my will in this matter. Seek me—and then you will know my will." Seeking God's will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Practices must be understood not simply as things we do to grow spiritually but rather as concrete ways in which our participation in God's mission is embodied in relation to our neighbor.

Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

Jesus died for his own sins, not mine.

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.

God desires that we position ourselves to hear His voice so we can receive the Word that will change our lives forever.

Luke 17:21, which says, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

An unrenewed mind is a mind that lacks the knowledge of God's Word. A lack of knowledge about the Word keeps us from maturing spiritually.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. Am

Descubrir a Dios entre las sábanas —no en el templo fariseo ni en la altiva mezquita— sábanas blancas sudario del amor que te cubría manto sagrado iniciar la bienaventurada ascensión de tu piel a la eternidad de tu vientre al círculo celestial sentir a Dios en tus húmedas cavidades en el grito vertiginoso de la jauría de tus vísceras

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

In the "grain of wheat" metaphor, Jesus insists if we wish to hold on to the throughline to eternity, we have to follow that line through death. We have to imagine death enough to see it not as some utterly aversive event we go away from or around, but instead as something recognizable enough to go through. When we thoughtfully stock our minds with images of death, we give the Spirit of Jesus the raw material to draw mental throughlines from death to resurrection.