Quotes about Spiritual

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.

If you are like me, you may have strong longings from time to time for the mighty working of the holy Spirit in your life...But what I have found most often in my own life is the failure to open myself to the full measure of the Spirit's work by believing the promises of God.

It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things. The devils want them.

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires