Quotes about Spirituality

find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.

There is no goodness in our will now, but what it hath from grace.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

Go on, and faint not, something of yours is in heaven, beside the flesh of your exalted Saviour, and ye go on after your own.

urge upon you . . . a nearer communion with Christ and a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn by in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in Him. I despair that ever I shall win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it; therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labour, and take pains for Him, and set by so much time in the day for Him as you can: He will be won with labour.

How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.