Quotes about Spirituality

We were designed to be social beings, to live in vertical community with God and horizontal community with others.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To put it another way, our lives were designed to be shaped more by our attachment to the Creator than by the creation. We were made to experience, to be part of, to be consumed by, and to live in pursuit of the one glory that is truly glorious—the glory of God.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

The Bible declares he does over and over again. It tells us that God's eyes are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers (Ps. 34:15).

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.