Quotes about Living
Knowledge of God is knowledge of living with God. Israel's religious existence consists of three inner attitudes: engagement to the living God to whom we are accountable; engagement to Torah where His voice is audible; and engagement to His concern as expressed in mitsvot (commandments).
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays for the sake of the Sabbath. It is not an interlude but a climax of living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.
- Don Piper
True spirituality is not trying to make ourselves spiritual through faith, but it is living out our faith in service to God and neighbor.
- Donald Bloesch
Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.
- Donald Bloesch
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.
- Brother Lawrence
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.
- Andrew Wommack
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
- Ann Voskamp