Quotes About Spirituality

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation of devotion to God. This often results in a cold morality or legalism, or, even worse, self-righteousness and spiritual pride.

Whether before breakfast or after, morning or evening, the point is we must all arrange our schedules to provide for this daily intake of the Word of God.

Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life

You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way. ~Jay Adams~

God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it.

God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.

It might be good if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.

We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

In order to trust God we must know Him in an intimate, personal way.

Just as the airplane must have both wings to fly, so we must exercise both discipline and dependence in the pursuit of holiness. Just as it is impossible for an airplane to fly with only one wing, so it is impossible for us to successfully pursue holiness with only dependence or discipline. We absolutely must have both.

God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call. It

It is by men's being formed to a right way of thinking, that they are formed to a right way of feeling and acting with regard to this world and the next—to God, and our brethren of mankind.[4]

If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ROMANS 7:21

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 PETER 3:18)

I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today.

What was it that caused such a dramatic mood change in the heart of the writer? He turns from the circumstances at hand to the Lord.

Why is this such a well-kept secret? The core issue is that we don't believe we're still spiritually "bankrupt." Having come into God's kingdom by grace alone solely on the merit of Another, we're now trying to pay our own way by our performance. We declared only temporary bankruptcy; we're now trying to live by good works rather than by grace.