Quotes About Spirituality

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed, John Bunyan writes. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.24

Give yourself-not just your time-to prayer. Remember that prayer is not an appendix to your life and your work, it is your life your real, spiritual life-and your work. Prayer is the thermometer of your soul.

As Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) said, "A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

It is possible to be saved without assurance, but it is scarcely possible to be a healthy Christian without assurance.

Look in the mirror and decide once and for all: Am I biological or mechanical? Is my deepest essence a machine or not?

Azt, amikor a szellem széttöri a bilincseit, menekülést keres, és szabadságra vágyik. Ez tehát a boldogság, egyben azonban elszakadás a földi dolgoktól, s a legnagyobb bölcsesség is. Az igazi boldogság az éntÅ'l való megszabadulás, a szeretÅ'k boldogsága, akiket Platón mindenki közül a legboldogabbnak nevez.

before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind

When the love of God is absent from friendships, friends don't become platonic friends anymore; they become boyfriends and girlfriends.

Friendship with children is the hidden key for unlocking the nature of God in them.

At the highest proof, friendship is God, and God is friendship.

Let your friendship with God be real in your life through your conduct, character and choices. Be a best friend of God.

You're spiritually one with God, if you're His friend.

Spending the first early minutes of the morning with God, asking him to help us navigate through the known and the unknown in the hours ahead, will do more to get our priorities in place than hours of soul-searching and weighing our options.

Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." HEBREWS 12:1

When we admit we're powerless, we go on to recognize that we need a power greater than ourselves to restore us. That power is the one and only true Higher Power, Jesus Christ.

True change comes only when we die to ourselves and allow Christ to set the pace.

I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

It doesn't matter how good something looks, how happy it makes you, how much fun it is, how rich and successful you'll become, how deeply spiritual it appears, how sensible it seems, how popular or accepted it is—and the list goes on and on. If something is contrary to the wisdom (or Word) of God, it will ultimately be detrimental and bring sorrow to your life.

I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

Stay submitted to God by not becoming offended; resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). We resist the devil by not becoming offended. The dream or vision will probably happen differently than how you think it will, but His Word and His promises will not fail. We only risk aborting them by our disobedience.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. —Oswald Chambers

Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered. Peter learned obedience by the things he suffered. Paul learned obedience by the things he suffered. What about you? Have you learned? Or are you hard, calloused, cold, bitter, and resentful? Then you did not learn obedience.

In essence he declared, "If I have to choose between Your presence and Your blessing, I'll take Your presence—even if it's in a place of lack and hardship—over Your blessing in a great environment.