Quotes about Spiritual
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
— John Calvin
When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.
— John Calvin
For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.
— John Calvin
It lays down a clear distinction between spiritual and civil government, in order to inform us that outward subjection does not prevent us from having within us a conscience free in the sight of God.
— John Calvin
God was pleased to indicate and typify both the gift of future and eternal felicity by terrestrial blessings, as well as the dreadful nature of spiritual death by bodily punishments, at that time when he delivered his covenant to the Israelites as under a kind of veil.
— John Calvin
Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No
— John Calvin
The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner
— John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
— John Calvin
Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
— John Donne
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
— David Platt
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
— John Ortberg
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
— John Piper