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Quotes About Spirituality

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
~ Richard Baxter
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
~ Richard Baxter
Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
~ Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We
~ Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
~ Richard Baxter
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
~ Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
~ Richard Baxter
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
~ Richard Baxter
Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
~ Richard Baxter
But a deep walk with God does not come effortlessly. If it did, many more people would have one. First, you must decide you're unwilling to remain where you are. Second, you must be prepared to pay a price. Will you rise earlier so you can spend unhurried tome with Him? Will you forgo comforts and pleasures so you can focus on your walk with Him?
~ Richard Blackaby
Does Christianity merely mean we must forfeit our Sunday mornings to church attendance, or does being a Christian noticeably improve our lives?
~ Richard Blackaby
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
~ Richard Blackaby
Richard Blackaby
~ 1 John 4:7-8)
Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life.
~ Richard Blackaby
If you don't recognize that God created you for eternity, you'll invest your life in the wrong things.
~ Richard Blackaby
He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.
~ Richard Blackaby
It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.
~ Richard Blackaby
3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.
~ Richard Blackaby
Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.
~ Richard Blackaby
If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.
~ Richard Blackaby
My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.
~ Richard Bowes
Why did the sheep bells of the Falkland Islands ring louder than the church bells of Jerusalem?' —
~ Richard Branson
She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
~ Richard Brookhiser
God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller