Quotes about Spirituality

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

The nearer we are to God, the less we are in ourselves, but the stronger we are in Him. The more I see of God, the less I become, the deeper is my confidence in Him. To become lowly, let God fill eye and heart. Where God is all, there is no time or place for man.

God unceasingly gives and works; His child unceasingly waits and receives — this is the blessed life.

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

A new life from above, the life of Christ, must take the place of the self-life; then alone can we be conquerors.

Do not serve God half-heartedly. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you to the wonder of a life wholly surrendered to God's service.

It is often spiritual laziness that, under the appearance of humility, professes to have no will, because it fears the trouble of searching out the will of God, or when found, the struggle of claiming it in faith.

In Your death I would live daily; in Your life I would die daily.

Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them. The Kingdom should be first every day, and all the day.

They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.

The reason is simply this—they have never learned to believe and accept the truth that the Holy Spirit can pour God's love into their heart. That blessed text has often been limited!—"The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts" (Romans 5:5).