Quotes about Spirituality

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.