Quotes about Inner

Your inner light has the power to light up the world.

Your inner light is your brightest light.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

Today religion appeals almost solely to the needs of the private sphere—needs for personal meaning, social bonding, family sup-port, emotional nurturing, practical living, and so on. In this climate, almost inevitably, churches come to speak the language of psychological needs, focusing primarily on the therapeutic functions of religion. Whereas religion used to be connected to group identity and a sense of belonging, it is now almost solely a search for an authentic inner life.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.

Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to God Himself.

say that "prayer changes things" is not as close to the truth as saying, "Prayer changes me and then I change things." God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.

Resting in the Lord is not dependent on your external circumstances at all, but on your relationship with God Himself.

We look for God to exhibit Himself to His children, but God only exhibits Himself in His children.