Quotes about Spirituality
God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people.
— John Ortberg
God is not interested in your "spiritual life." God is just interested in your life.
— John Ortberg
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom.
— John Ortberg
The problem with people, according to Jesus, is not that we are too happy for God's taste, but that we are not happy enough.
— John Ortberg
No one can see God's face" (see Exodus 33:20). What do they mean when they say that no one can see God's face? They mean that we cannot see God as he is. We are not capable of this. We inevitably project our own fallenness onto God.
— John Ortberg
Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
— John Ortberg
can be "sitting at Jesus feet" when I'm kneeling in prayer or negotiating a contract or fixing my kids lunch or watching a movie. All it requires is my asking him to be my teacher and companion in this moment.
— John Ortberg
To mortify a sin is not utterly to kill, root it out, and destroy it, that it should have no more hold at all nor residence in our hearts. It is true this is that which is aimed at; but this is not in this life to be accomplished.
— John Owen
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
— John Owen
Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.
— John Owen
keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph
— John Owen