Quotes about Spirituality

If you don't recognize that God created you for eternity, you'll invest your life in the wrong things.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship...

Life is all about practicing for heaven. p 101.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.