Quotes about Spirituality

We can't take material things with us when we die, but we do take our friendships to Heaven, and one day they'll be renewed.

Now think, my brother, you will be in Heaven very soon. Since last year a great number have gone home: before next year many more will have ascended to glory. Sitting up in those celestial seats, how shall we wish that we had lived below?" —Charles Spurgeon

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how we should have lived. But God has given us His Word so that we don't have to wait to die to find out. And He's given us His Spirit to empower us to live that way now.

What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." —David Brainerd

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.

The single greatest contributor to our inability to see money and possessions in their true light—and our tendency to ignore the law of rewards—is our persistent failure to see our present lives through the lens of eternity.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him." —J. Oswald Sanders

Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." —George Müller