Quotes about Spirituality

Sin's self-centeredness cuts us off from God and others

That evening in the grocery store parking lot, my problem was not just that I didn't love my family as I should. My problem was that I didn't love God as I should.

The circle of human community is only healthy when it exists within the larger circle of community with God.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.

Good relationships are always built on the foundation stones of identity and worship.

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.

Ultimately, my real problem is a worship disorder.

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

As we live with each other in the middle of the already and the not yet, we need more than elevated emotion and accurate understanding. We need eyes to see this one amazing reality: we are Christ's and he is ours. We need to see that it is spiritually impossible for us to ever be alone. His amazing resources of grace are constantly at our disposal.