Quotes About Spirituality

How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.

An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.

When we are saved by grace, we do not leave behind the commandments of God. On the contrary, we find the power to keep them in love.

First, the Puritans showed a profound dependence upon the Holy Spirit in everything they said and did. They felt keenly their inability to bring anyone to Christ as well as the magnitude of conversion.

Some of us have little spiritual vitality because we fail to feed on Christ day by day. Over time, we become spiritually anorexic.

To read the Bible experientially simply means to read it with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. That is how the Bible is intended to be read.

How can we live to God in public when we so seldom meet Him in private?

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Violating these laws does not bring the wrath of God upon you, it brings the wrath of your sin upon you. You are never punished for your sins, never. And you never will be. You are punished by your sins, and you can't avoid it.

God is not meant to glorify man: Man is meant to glorify God.

God's grace is our sufficiency in all things—today, tomorrow, and a thousand years from now.

as scripture says, "God is too pure to behold iniquity." Certainly God wouldn't tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.

realize there are some teachings that claim we are completely perfect and spiritual now, and therefore all of this would be unnecessary. In our spiritual identity that's true; but it certainly isn't true of our humanhood. And it is our humanhood, or to our humanhood, that we are trying to bring light so that we may outgrow this humanhood

But denying that you are a human being, and stating that you are already perfect and already spiritual and already have the mind of God, is merely a form of affirmation.

There is nothing more definite than this, that "I of my own self can do nothing"; that I of my own self am nothing; that I of my own self have nothing. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

Let us have no addresses to which God's grace is to be sent because God is not interested in one person more than in another.

Joel's message was called The Infinite Way and reintroduced, with contemporary clarity, a message of immense value to those who are prepared for it and are equally dedicated to studying and working with it.

You must remember what I have said to many students who told me or wrote to me that they're discouraged because they don't feel spiritual. My answer has always been: "And you never will." If you meet people who say they feel spiritual, don't believe them; they're lying to you. There is no such thing as feeling spiritual, any more than there is such a thing as feeling moral.

If we are to escape from the limitations of ordinary human existence, if we are to escape from the laws of matter and the laws of mind, we are only going to do it through learning some form of treatment such as this, and by reminding ourselves each day that God is the only law-giver and God is Spirit.

We were under the law when we were under Moses. We came under grace when we came under Christ Jesus. But this grace cannot act except through our recognition and acceptance of it.

To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word "God," but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.

The kingdom of God is within us; the whole of the Godhead is to be found within our individual being, not in holy mountains nor yet in the temple at Jerusalem, but within us.

as humans we have become separated with our source~ Joel S. Goldsmith ~Rising in consciousness~

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.