Quotes About Spirituality

When people read the Bible, they are trying to discern how they are to live.

for the enemy can't stay where God's love is poured out.

Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we're there, we'll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven's glory was in the place we come from. And you know what them angels will say? They'll say yes, pilgrim, and how often did you notice? What did you seek?

Sin brings alienation between humans and God, but confession of sin brings restoration.

Sense and Nonsense about Heaven and Hell. Grand Rapids, MI:

Death and the Life After.

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.

Humbly aware of your sins and the need for forgiveness.

Hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Love God and not the things of this world.

I abhor a piety which has no humanity with it and in it," he added. "God loves both piety and humanity."165

No one will see our Jesus if they can't see past our blind allegiance to a man who is nothing like him.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

The question is not, nor has it ever been, whether God is willing to move in the hearts of His people; the issue is whether we are willing to surrender in full obedience to Him so that we may begin to enjoy the enormous blessings He invites us to enjoy by living in His presence.

True revival will come when God is taken seriously by those of us who call ourselves Christ followers—take God seriously and finally believe what we say we believe. True revival will be akin to spiritual seismic activity, shaking us to our core, allowing us to see the profound overtake the profane, with the promise that our lives will never be the same.

Remember what we learned earlier in this book: effective prayer occurs when you talk to God and listen to what God is saying to you. The main thing in your life is that you meet with God the first thing every day. When you pray, it demonstrates that you depend on God in your life. When you do not pray, it demonstrates that you are depending upon yourself. God wants to use prayer to influence your life.

A mingling of auras.. love.. It defies definition..

The most beautiful silence can be heard in the symphonies of nature.. And when the best in the human being embraces in passion this silence - we rejoice in the eternal symphony of soul and silence..

The truth lies not in the mind but in the soul because the mind wavers but the soul is constant.