Quotes About Spirituality

But Jesus replied, “Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?”

Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers.

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”

This is why I speak to them in parables: ëThough seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.í

When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

Jesus replied, “Elijah does indeed come, and he will restore all things.

Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldnít we drive it out?”