Quotes about Spirituality

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Artificial methodizing of spiritual truths may make men ready in notions, cunning and subtile in disputations; but it is the Scripture itself that is able to "make us wise unto salvation.

there is inconceivably more evil and guilt in the evil of thy heart that doth remain, than there would be in so much sin if thou hadst no grace at all.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live (chapter 7). Oh, the pastoral insights that emerge from Owen! As here: If you are fighting sin, you are alive. Take heart.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is.

Faith is the best ingredient for miracles.

The grass is always green if God is watering it.

Faith sees the invisible believes the incredible and receives the impossible.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

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