Quotes about Spirituality
The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must constantly remember: we spoil and God restores. How ugly is the way in which we spoil, and how good and how beautiful is the way in which He restores.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
These are the three pillars on which our prayer rises to God: our own loyalty, the holiness of Israel, the mercy of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
— Abraham Lincoln
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
— Abraham Lincoln
This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.
— Adrian Rogers
Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us!
— Adrian Rogers
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
— Derek Prince
The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.
— Derek Prince