Quotes about Spirituality

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.

for no man, without trials and temptations, can attain to the true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. 

Therefore conquering pride, restraining riotous living, crucifying the flesh, these are great beyond all the power of men.

In short, those of us who are in the church are in the vale of tears.

If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.

Every time people are converted, it is because God has come to them and overcome their ignorance by showing the Gospel to them.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.