Quotes about Spirituality

God holds the saints responsible for emotions they do not have and ought to have, as well as for the emotions they have allowed that they ought not to have allowed.

Are you seeking great things for yourself? Have you said, "Oh, Lord, completely fill me with Your Holy Spirit"? If God does not, it is because you are not totally surrendered to Him; there is something you still refuse to do.

Compare this week in your spiritual life with the same week last year to see how God has called you to a higher level. We have all been brought to see from a higher viewpoint. Never allow God to show you a truth which you do not instantly begin to live up to, applying it to your life. Always work through it, staying in its light.

Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the never-ending supply of the life of God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

First Peter 4:12 says, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you . . . ." Rise to the occasion—do what the trial demands of you. It does not matter how much it hurts as long as it gives God the opportunity to manifest the life of Jesus in your body.

We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.

At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don't use your restrictions to criticize someone else.

We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance.

A child of the light confesses instantly and stands bared before God; a child of the darkness says, 'Oh, I can explain that away.

As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer.

His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry? There