Quotes about Spirituality

First, we must learn to read the Bible with our heads, in order to understand what is actually, objectively, being said. And second, we must learn to read it with our hearts, in order to experience God's voice through its pages. By carefully studying the Bible, we come to understand what its writers were originally saying. And by prayerfully exploring it, we learn to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to us now.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

I am convinced, however, that our constant activity is fruitless without first making that humble act of kneeling to pray. I am convinced that prayer is not only our greatest privilege, but also our greatest source of power.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

In prayer we inhale as God breathes his new life into us, and then in evangelism we exhale to breathe God's life upon a dying world.

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

Our world is waiting for us to love and show God's heart through his powerful presence.

What if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

By stopping to be still in the ways described above, prior to opening my Bible, I can prime my heart to hear from God in a focused way with far fewer distractions.