Quotes about Spirituality

The prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. (James 5:15—16)

The question is not whether you will worship, but rather what you will worship—your glorious Creator or something he created.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the latent Spiritual Community and not as complete strangers who are invited into the Spiritual Community from outside. This insight serves as a powerful weapon against ecclesiastical and hierarchical arrogance.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)