Quotes about Spiritual

entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

What is dark within me, illumine.

Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.