Quotes about Spirituality

After some minutes, I went back to the Bible. Again my eyes skimmed the pages. My spirit was calm now. My trembling had ceased. I read passage after passage until I came to Psalm 27:14. I stopped and read it through again. "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

The absence of an inner conflict is one of life's richest blessings," the pastor also had said. "And it comes only from the hand of God.

Stephen remained untouched. Instead, the illumination surrounding him strengthened further, as though all light in the chamber was drawn to this one man. Stephen lifted his face toward the chamber's ceiling and cried, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" These words unleashed both the Council and the mob. The chamber was filled with shrill cries demanding he be condemned to death.

Many of the girls wear simple dresses to church. We do not make a point of 'dressing up,' nor do we study one another to see what is being worn. Nor does God. It's our hearts He views as we enter the doors to His church. Not our clothing.

Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference

Does this God of yours speak with you often?" "No. But he makes his will known. His Holy Spirit moves among us. I'm practicing listening and hearing and obeying.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.