Quotes about Spirituality

We are transferred out of darkness into the kingdom of light.

Scripture reveals God as an emotional being who feels—a Person.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

You are a human being made in God's likeness.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.

the activity of my life ("doing" for Jesus) began to eclipse the contemplative dimension of my life ("being" with Jesus).

I was engaged in more activity for God than my being with God could sustain.

No other religion in the world reveals a personal God who loves us for who we are, not what we do.

God intends that we mature in learning to recognize how he speaks and guides us through our feelings.

Emotions are the language of the soul.

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to "spiritualize away" conflict. 8.