Quotes About Spiritual

Truth in its entirety is but the ideal transcript of the universe. It is the mirrored reflection of all fact and being—the thought and will of the Creator as written and revealed by all that exists, material and spiritual, with all their laws, relations, changes, evolutions, and history. More—the

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

Spiritual discipline: Any activity that can help me gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.

Satan's purpose is to take from you what God has given you.

Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Satan would willingly lose every battle to us, so long as he could successfully steal the attention that belongs to God.

Putting on the armor of God is a poetic way of saying, "I choose to examine anything in my life that is impure.

We are not human beings having a temporary spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.

Deep conflicts are stressful and painful. At worst, they are violent and destructive. Yet at the same time, they create some of the most intense spiritual encounters we experience. Conflict opens a path, a holy path, toward revelation and reconciliation.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

So from the context of 1 Thessalonians 5 I say that the key to "rejoice always" is to "pray without ceasing." Lean on God all the time for the miracle of joy in your life. Never give up looking to him for help. Come to him repeatedly during the day and often. Make your default mental state a Godward longing for all that you need, especially for spiritual desires.

The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things. The devils want them.

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires

The quickest way to the heart is through a wound.... Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.... Sin is like spiritual leprosy. It deadens your spiritual senses so that you rip your soul to shreds and don't even feel it.

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions. "Mere knowledge is confessedly too weak. The affections alone remain to supply the deficiency."1

So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.

If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.