Quotes About Spirituality

maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

You are constantly preaching to yourself some kind of gospel. You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of your own righteousness, power, and wisdom, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of deep spiritual need and sufficient grace. You preach to yourself an anti-gospel of aloneness and inability, or you preach to yourself the true gospel of the presence, provisions, and power of an ever-present Christ.

It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.

There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.