Quotes about Spirituality

For the place God calls us into isn't doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.

As he said, "we should have a double eye: one eye to see that which is amiss in us, our own imperfections, thereby to carry ourselves in a perpetual humility; but another eye of faith, to see what we have in Christ, our perfection in him.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.