Quotes About Spirituality

I often look around in a church at the utterly expressionless faces singing "Alleluia! Alleluia!" and wonder why we don't let our faces know what our lips are saying.

It feels like cheap sex and spurious art to me, the spiritual equivalent of junk food; it may look like an éclair, but it's really a Twinkie.

Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.

The only way Christ's Life can be shown forth is by first "putting off" our ungodly thoughts and emotions and then "putting on" the Mind of Christ.

If we put God into a box built by our own human understanding, we'll never be able to endure the trials of our faith.

but I believed with all my heart that God was involved in some way and that He would do a "miracle." I would somehow be healed, perhaps lead many others to Christ in the hospital, and lots of "fruit" would be produced from the whole experience, etc.

The Gospel is not health and wealth in this life, but a call to follow in Jesus Christ's footsteps.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Frank Sheed once said, "The secular novelist sees what is visible; the Christian novelist sees what is there.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

Western culture is regressively falling back into a dualism that denigrates the material realm, just as paganism did.

Idolatry is thus the hidden sin driving all other sins.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

De acordo com Clouser, o único aspecto compartilhado por todas as religiões é que reconhecem algo como divino – e usam essa palavra para significar a realidade eterna e autoexistente que é a origem de todo o restante. Obviamente, elas não concordam sobre o que se caracteriza como divino; concordam apenas que algo é divino. Nenhum outro fator é verdadeiramente universal entre as religiões.

The whole creation of God preaches

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

In every age, the gospel fulfills people's most profound aspirations.

Biblical truth is rich enough to satisfy all the hungers of the human personality.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

Christianity liberates us from any life-denying reductionism that dishonors and debases humanity. It affirms the high dignity of humans as full persons made in the image of a personal God.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.