Quotes about Spirituality

Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.

Another of Brother Lawrence's helpful ideas was to pray shorter conversational prayers continually through the day rather than trying to pray long sessions of complex prayers.

Without God's power in your life, you are just running on your own energy. God never meant for you to do that. It's like having a laptop that's unplugged; the battery will eventually drain and shut down the computer. Why would you live like that when God created you for so much more?

Your value doesn't come from the clothes you wear, a number on a scale, your career, or your success with a health plan on any given day. You are of immense value because God made you.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

I believe the reason so many are failing today is that they have not disciplined themselves to read God's Word consistently, day in and day out, and to apply it to every situation in life.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.