Quotes About Spirituality

Aunque quienes no tienen fe pueden, por deseos carnales, empeñar, hipotecar o vender lo que tienen, y hasta a ellos mismos; sin embargo, quienes tiene fe, fe salvadora, aunque sea poca, no pueden hacerlo.

For instance, when I think and meditate on what I saw at the cross, that will do it. And when I look at my embroidered coat, that will do it. Plus, when I read and study the scroll I carry in my pocket next to my heart, that will do it. When my thoughts are warmly stimulated about where I am going, that will do it too.

las cosas terrenales, cuando se han apoderado de las mentes de los hombres, apartan bastante lejos sus corazones de Dios".

The body without the soul is nothing but a dead carcass, so just saying these things without doing them is, in the same way, dead. The soul of true religion is the practical part.

Sure, but those times of victory over carnality happened infrequently. However, when they did happen, it was truly golden.

I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.  This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.

he loves me with love that passeth knowledge, and I will love him. His love stripped him of all for my sake; Lord, let my love strip me of all for thy sake. I am a son of love, an object of love, a monument of love; of free love, of distinguishing love, of peculiar love, and of love that passeth knowledge: and why should not I walk in love-in love to God, in love to man, in holy love, in love unfeigned?

Entonces una mano le entregó algunas hojas del árbol de la vida, que Cristiano tomó y puso en las heridas que había recibido en la batalla, y fue sanado de inmediato.

Sometimes also he would cast in such wicked thoughts as these; that I must pray to him, or for him: I have thought sometimes of that, Fall down; or, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.  Matt. iii. 9.

It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

Who would true valour see, / Let him come hither. . . / fancies fly away, / He'll fear not what men say, / He'll labour night and day / To be a pilgrim.

still answering, as fast as the destroyer said, Sell Him; I will not, I will not, I will not, I will not; no, not for thousands, thousands, thousands of worlds: thus reckoning, lest I should, in the midst of these assaults, set too low a value on Him;

I can only say this, that for true worship of God there is a divine faith required, but there can be no divine faith without a divine revelation of the will of God.

suddenly this sentence rushed in upon me, The blood of Christ remits all guilt.  At this I made a stand in my spirit: with that this word took hold upon me, The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.  1 John i. 7. 144.  Now I began to conceive peace in my soul, and methought I saw, as if the tempter did leer and steal away from me, as being ashamed of what he had done. 

The highway is walled on both sides to indicate that for Christian, the way forward is secure and certain. After experiencing all the uncertainties and spiritual upheaval surrounding his conversion, the path ahead is well-defined and clear. Christian is about to experience deliverance and relief from the burden that has so grieved his soul. Christian fixes his eyes on the cross of Christ, and his burden falls off his back. 2.

Now this, as I said, is called the fear of the Lord, because it is called the rule and director of our fear. For we know not how to fear the Lord in a saving way without its guidance and direction.

For in the multitude of dreams, there are also divers vanities, but fear thou God; that is, take heed unto his Word (Eccl 5:7; Isa 8:20). Here the fearing of God is opposed to our overmuch heeding dreams: and there is implied, that it is for want of the fear of God that men so much heed those things.

Now, if a good man cannot do good things with that oneness and universalness of mind, as a wicked man doth sin with, then is his sin heavier to weigh him down to hell than is his righteousness to buoy him up to the heavens.

Prudence: Now James, can you tell me who made you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy. And can you tell me who saves you? James: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Prudence: Good boy again. But how does God the Father save you? James: By his grace. Prudence: How does God the Son save you?

Man. I left off to watch and be sober. I gave free reins to sin; I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God; I have grieved the Spirit, and He is gone; I tempted the devil, and he has come to me; I have provoked God to anger, and He has left me; I have so hardened my heart that I cannot turn.

cómo te salva Dios Padre?". JACOBO: "Por su gracia". PRUDENCIA: "¿Cómo te salva Dios Hijo?". JACOBO: "Por su justicia, su muerte, su sangre y su vida". PRUDENCIA: "¿Y cómo te salva Dios Espíritu Santo?". JACOBO: "Por su iluminación, por su renovación y por su preservación".

As Nobel prize– winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, "The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

Cuando Dios quiere educar a alguien, no lo envía a la escuela de la gracia sino a la de las necesidades.

tiene que crecer en su conocimiento de cómo funciona el dinero. Para enriquecer su alma, tiene que crecer espiritualmente