Quotes About Spirituality

even if Christians are completely surrounded by sin, they should still fight against it. Some people think they're Christians because they've been baptized. These people give their desires free rein and don't care about conquering their sins. They merely follow their own cravings.

libre albedrío" no es más que un esclavo del pecado, de la muerte y de Satanás. Tal "libertad" no es ninguna libertad.

We must not be dependent on the judgment of the world or the flesh; in fact, we must not be dependent on the judgment even of our own hearts regarding ourselves.

To be a Christian without praying is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.

Hence it is great wisdom to know that we are nothing but sin, so that we do not think of sin as lightly as do the pope's theologians, who define sin as "anything said, done, or thought against the Law of God." Define sin, rather, on the basis of this psalm, as all that is born of father and mother, before a man is old enough to say, do, or think anything.

Works, since they are irrational things, cannot glorify God, although they may be done to the glory of God, if faith be present.

It is indeed pitiful that a monk who does nothing else night and day except chastise his body achieves nothing by this diligence than to be cast into the flames of hell.

Wer ein Christ sein will, der steche seiner Vernunft die Augen aus.

It is necessary for the saints to be disciplined in this way, to descend into hell and the abyss, and to be recalled from there into heaven. For

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

You will thus wrong your faith, which alone bestows all things on you, and the increase of which, either by working or by suffering, is alone to be cared for.

We conclude therefore that a Christian man does not live in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbour, or else is no Christian: in Christ by faith; in his neighbour by love.

Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.

for no man, without trials and temptations, can attain to the true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. 

No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!

Therefore conquering pride, restraining riotous living, crucifying the flesh, these are great beyond all the power of men.

In short, those of us who are in the church are in the vale of tears.

If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32

True freedom is being free from sin. How

Every time people are converted, it is because God has come to them and overcome their ignorance by showing the Gospel to them.

God alone can create and preserve faith in us. God creates faith in us through the Word. He increases, strengthens and confirms faith in us through His word. Hence the best service that anybody can render God is diligently to hear and read God's Word.