Quotes about Spirituality

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

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

I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

I know that God lives, my brothers and sisters. There is no question in my mind. I know that this is His work, and I know that the sweetest experience in all this life is to feel His promptings as He directs us in the furtherance of His work.

The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.