Quotes about Spirituality
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?
— Rene Gutteridge
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind. -Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.
— Richard Baxter
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
— Richard Baxter
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
— Richard Baxter
Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
— Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We
— Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
— Richard Baxter
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
— Richard Baxter