Quotes About Spirituality

But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honors God

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

Thomas Merton once said, "We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.

The end result is spirituality without dogma, religion without God, argument without substance, rationalization without rationality, and tranquillity by transfer of funds from the seeker's bank account to the company that makes the best offer of nirvana, at the same time producing dogmatism about relativism in matters of ultimate meaning.

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving.

Malcolm Muggeridge, that peripatetic journalist who traveled the globe for more than six decades of his life, said that if God is dead somebody else is going to have to take His place. It will either be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner. To

intellectual answers to the problem of pain are important. But intellect alone cannot help us navigate the minefield of pain and suffering. Other worldviews may offer intellectual answers. Christianity alone offers us a person.

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

When we come to know our Creator, the questioning is not for doubting but for putting it all together and marveling at His wonders.

I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

Dar pentru creÈ™tin, la moarte orice dorin?? care înainte era limitat? la carne va fi împlinit? în duh. Atingerea dup? care a tânjit în exterior va fi atunci interioar?. CredinÈ›a care înainte privea spre viitor va g?si atunci eternitatea.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.