Quotes about Spirituality

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego. Usually, for that to happen there must be a deliberate withdrawal from the noise of the day, a disciplined detachment from the insatiable self.

Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.

This joy is not dependent on our good luck in escaping hardship. It is not dependent on our good health and avoidance of pain. Christian joy is actual in the midst of pain, suffering, loneliness and misfortune.

Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

Silence, he told us, was hugely undervalued in our American way of life as a way of being in communion with one another and with God. American Christians were conspicuously deficient. "Think of it as remedial silence." This would be three days for practicing silence. "These might be the quietest three days you will ever spend. Don't waste them."

"Faith" is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer.

But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.