Quotes about Spirituality

So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God's will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God's will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within.

But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honors God

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?

When God brings us to salvation, the most remarkable thing we see is that he transforms our hungers. He changes not just what we do but what we want to do. This is the work of the Holy Spirit within us — "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

Thomas Merton once said, "We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.