Quotes about Spirituality

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

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