Quotes About Spirituality

In Christ there are no dead and sapless branches, faith is not an idle grace; wherever it is, it brings forth fruit in works.

The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;

Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience.

The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better prepared we are for the pleasures of heaven.

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Those who would be wise and knowing must make application to Christ.

And so great is the change the grace of God makes in the soul, that, as it follows, old things are passed away – old thoughts, old principles, and old practices, are passed away; and all these things must become new. Note, Regenerating grace creates a new world in the soul; all things are new. The renewed man acts from new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company.

Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;

When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.

Those that cast off the duties of religion in their prosperity cannot expect the comforts of it when they come to be in distress. Justly

those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain.

We cannot reach true wisdom except by divine revelation.

Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.

prayer-time must be kept up as duly as meat-time.

As those who live and die unsanctified go out of the world with their hell about them, so those who are sanctified and renewed go out of the world with their heaven about them.

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.

It is better to live poorly on the fruits of God's goodness, than live plentifully on the products of our own sin.

Christ must be sought, and will be found, in the congregations of his people and in the administration of his ordinances;

What is prayer, but the ascent of the soul to God?

It is Christ living in the soul by faith that makes the body a living sacrifice

Those who have their eyes opened, and have some understanding in the things of God, have need to be more and more enlightened, and to have their knowledge more clear, and distinct, and experimental.

Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there.