Quotes about Spirituality

A godly person chooseth Christ and grace before the most illustrious things under the sun:

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labor to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you.

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.

We are never more precious in gods eyes than when we are lepers in our own.

A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

Conscience is God's diocese, where none has right to visit, but He who is the Bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25

The reason why God has given us a thinking faculty, is that we may think on his Name. When our thoughts run out in vain things, we should think with ourselves thus: Did God give us this talent to misemploy? Did he give us thoughts that we should think of everything but him?

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world: