Quotes about Spirituality

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ

to a church where people don't mind expressing themselves.

No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.