Quotes about Spirituality

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

If you aren't daily admitting to yourself that you are a mess and in daily and rather desperate need for forgiving and transforming grace, and if the evidence around has not caused you to abandon your confidence in your own righteousness, then you are going to give yourself to the work of convincing yourself that you are okay.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

In fact, one of the things that makes a sermon compelling is that the preacher is worshiping his way through his own sermon.

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.