Quotes About Spiritual

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

Not everyone understand that the core of all relationships is spiritual and emotional.

Regret helps us clarify what is and is not important to us. Be thankful for the spiritual direction this emotion provides.

Parenting is a spiritual path that can bring you great pain and great joy and that can have a tremendous positive impact on your personality and your behavior.

in our spiritually dead condition, it is impossible to have the positive spiritual disposition required to have faith in Christ.

If you allow the things of this world to dominate your thinking, you will be spiritually unfruitful.

the purpose is to alert ourselves to the fact that the forces of hell are constantly attacking the church from many sides, and that these attacks assume many different forms.

You cannot just wish your way into the kingdom. You must be born into it. And if God has ever implanted into you spiritual life, this is something that can never die.

Sin alienates a person from God, and drives the person to live in a way that displeases him. This person will spend less time praying, reading the Bible and Christian books, ministering to others, and seeking God (v. 13-16). Sins leads a person into spiritual poverty:

I am pointing out the fact that we are involved in a conflict with the forces of hell, which consist of Satan, demons, and non-Christians. This conflict is spiritual and intellectual in nature, and it is on this level that our aggression applies. Our weapons include earnest petitions toward God and proclamations toward men, and not the superficial and inferior tactics of terrorism, which might cause the flesh to submit but can never change the heart.

The first sign of repentance is the person's perception of his own wretchedness. The unrepentant is in a spiritual stupor, and the preaching of the gospel awakes the elect.

Spiritual growth does not come through your fleshly efforts, but it comes from an act of God giving life to us by means of his word.

the Bible is necessary for knowledge leading to salvation, instructions leading to spiritual growth, answers to the ultimate questions, and for knowledge about reality. It is the necessary precondition for all knowledge and for any rational apprehension of God and the universe.

Theological knowledge, or intellectual knowledge about God, is one of the most despised spiritual gifts. It is often regarded as unholy and unspiritual. However, Jesus says that to be God's friend means to have knowledge about him, about his being, his principles, and his plans and works.

What often happens is that people would construct their own standards and rules about how a righteous God ought to operate, and then they would invent all sorts of complicated arguments and distinctions to explain how God has never violated their standards and rules. It is as if they are embarrassed by the God of the Bible because he is too different from how sinful man functions and because he disregards the standards imposed upon him by spiritual rebels.

Regardless of how one has come to be deceived, believing in a false version of God is spiritually destructive.

The preaching of the gospel compels men to choose a side, or rather, it uncovers which side they are on. As we proclaim the Lord Jesus, the family of Satan arises in opposition, but the family of Christ awakes to faith and righteousness, to take up spiritual weapons, and to join the fight for the glory of God.