Quotes about Spirituality

From the beginning of his time until the end, Bonhoeffer maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade. Each morning he meditated for at least half an hour on a verse of Scripture. And he interceded for his friends and relatives, and for his brothers in the Confessing Church who were on the front lines or in concentration camps.

If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart.

Christ in us gives us over to death so that he can live within us. Thus our inner dying grows to meet that death from without. Christians receive their own death in this way, and in this way our physical death very truly becomes not the end but rather the fulfillment of our life with Jesus Christ.

At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others.

Heard the Bible read two hours—Pascal one hour and a quarter—meditation one hour and a quarter…. Pitt called and commended Butler's Analogy—resolved to write to him, and discover to him what I am occupied about: this will save me much embarrassment, and I hope give me more command both of my time and conduct.

Religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."

Even if you were to knock my head off, God would still exist.

Religion to other religions. Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

In fact, we are not sick and in need of healing. We are dead and in need of resurrecting.

There's no sense to expect the fruits where the Word really is no longer being preached.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer