Quotes about Spirituality

Frequently, I will read one or two selections from a devotional book as a means of tuning my heart before I open the Scripture. These books, written by human authors, should never take the place of the Word of God itself, but they can help us focus on spiritual matters and clear out any clutter that may be distracting to us.

Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.

You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.

Frank Sheed once said, "The secular novelist sees what is visible; the Christian novelist sees what is there.

Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

To the Greeks, this was not spiritual progress; it was regress. Why would anyone want to come back to the material world, the realm of evil and corruption? The whole idea was utter foolishness to the Greeks (1 Cor. 1:23 KJV).

Idolatry is thus the hidden sin driving all other sins.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

The whole creation of God preaches

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.