Quotes about Spirituality

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.

The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.

If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.

Their hearts shall be full of love. That which was in the heart on earth as but a grain of mustard-seed, shall be as a great tree in heaven. The soul that in this world had only a little spark of divine love in it, in heaven shall be, as it were, turned into a bright and ardent flame, like the sun in its fullest brightness, when it has no spot upon it.