Quotes About Spirituality

Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.

Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

And as I do, even as I say it out loud—I give everyone and everything to you—my soul cooperates a good bit. I'm settling down.

Then I ask for more of God: Jesus—I need more of you; fill me with more of you, God. Restore our union; fill me with your life.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

Now, if I am having a hard time hearing God's voice, or being certain that I have heard, I will sometimes try on one answer, then the other. Still in a posture of quiet listening, I will add to my prayers, Are you saying yes, Jesus? Are you saying you want us to go? Pause. Listen. Or are you saying no—you don't want us to go? Often as we try on one answer or another, our spirit can feel the guidance of the Holy Spirit through a confirmation, or a strong sense of reservation.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

The secret of Christianity is something else altogether—the life of Christ in you. Allowing his life to become your life. His revolution is not self-transformation, but his transformation of you, from the inside out, as you receive his life and allow him to live through you. Vine, branch. Anything else is madness.

your heart is made for the kingdom of God. This might be the most important thing anyone will ever tell you about yourself: your heart only thrives in one habitat, and that safe place is called the kingdom of God.

Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

As you practice release, what you're doing is creating soul space. You're literally carving out the intellectual and emotional space for God to come in

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

aún así, hay una esencia que Dios le ha dado a cada mujer.

The old saints sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," both because it's true and also because they needed to declare it to be true.

When you love me, it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

No religion is the only religion, no church the true church.

a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

Ama Tanr? dualar? duymaz. O'nda duymak veya görmek veya ac?mak veya yard?m etmek gibi insanl?ktan eser yoktur.

daca am fi pasari, ne am inalta si am zbura, ne am pierde in albastru. Dar nu suntem pasari. - totusi, aripile ar putea sa ne creasca. - cum adica? - exista sentimente care ne inalta deasupra pamantului. N ai grija, o sa ai aripi!