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Quotes About Spirituality

As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee. PSALM 42 : 1
~ Francine Rivers
Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vain.
~ Francine Rivers
The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.
~ Francine Rivers
Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.
~ Francine Rivers
We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God
~ Francine Rivers
courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
~ Francine Rivers
Be still and know that I am God, said the Spirit within Hadassah. And so she obeyed, waiting upon him while laying her hopes bare.
~ Francine Rivers
I learned that courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
~ Francine Rivers
She came to faith because she met and talked with someone who made her feel enveloped by God's love.
~ Francine Rivers
Jesus was with her, but she couldn't see Him; she couldn't touch Him. Never one for hugs and kisses from anyone but Niclas, she missed human touch. Why
~ Francine Rivers
Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.
~ Francine Rivers
Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.
~ Francine Rivers
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. PSALM 139:23-24
~ Francine Rivers
The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.
~ Francine Rivers
Perhaps he had already sensed God's leading, and been troubled and unsure why.
~ Francine Rivers
Yes, but this God could give us anything and everything we want. Why does He withhold a feast from heaven and instead make us grovel on our knees every morning for one day's portion of manna?
~ Francine Rivers
Michael saw God in everything. He saw him in the wind and the rain and the earth. He saw him in the crops that were growing. He saw God in the nature of the animals that inhabited their land. He saw him in the flames of their evening fire.
~ Francine Rivers
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7
~ Francine Rivers
then the cycle would repeat: faith for a generation, then complacency, soon followed by adultery as the people chased after false gods.
~ Francine Rivers
Membertou first was catechised, confessed his sins, and renounced the Devil, whom we are told he had faithfully served during a hundred and ten years.
~ Francis Parkman
He professed himself a Catholic, but his Catholicity sat lightly on him;
~ Francis Parkman
I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a cliff, but I found it difficult to imagine that there could be a real conflict between scientific truth and spiritual truth. Truth is truth. Truth cannot disprove truth.
~ Francis S. Collins
Si Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo.
~ Francis S. Collins
If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.
~ Francis Spufford