Quotes about Spirituality

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

This is the most excellent and divine wisdom that any creature is capable of. 'Tis more excellent than any human learning; 'tis far more excellent than all the knowledge of the greatest philosophers or statesmen. Yea, the least glimpse of the glory of God in the face of Christ doth more exalt and ennoble the soul than all the knowledge of those that have the greatest speculative understanding in divinity without grace.

I have been negligent this month past, in these three things: I have not been watchful enough over my appetites, in eating and drinking; in rising too late in the morning; and in not applying myself with sufficient application to the duty of secret prayer.

O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection.

Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:

Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.

There is no comfort, I find, in any enjoyment, without enjoying God, and being engaged in his service.

now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness that, on the contrary, my mouth would be forever stopped by it; and it looked as dreadful to me to see myself and the relation I stood in to God—I a sinner and criminal, and He a great Judge and Sovereign—as it would be to a poor trembling creature to venture off some high precipice.

Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.