Quotes About Spirituality

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

Jesus calls us to humbly admit that the biggest danger to each of us is not the sin that lurks outside us, but the iniquity that still resides in our hearts.

Idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God replaces God in the thoughts and desires of your heart.

Corporate worship is designed to make you thankful, not just for possessions and accomplishments, but for what you've been given in Christ.

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

God knew that we would convince ourselves that we are okay when we're not okay. So he designed a means for us to be confronted again and again with the depth of our sin and the expansive glory of his provision in the person and work of the Lamb, the Savior, the Redeemer—the Lord Jesus Christ.

to close the gap between your confessional theology and your functional theology, and by closing the gap, give the enemy less opportunity to do his evil work.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. OSWALD CHAMBERS

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To put it another way, our lives were designed to be shaped more by our attachment to the Creator than by the creation. We were made to experience, to be part of, to be consumed by, and to live in pursuit of the one glory that is truly glorious—the glory of God.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.

You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

The Bible declares he does over and over again. It tells us that God's eyes are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers (Ps. 34:15).

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.