Spirituality Quotes

“We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselvesBut we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.”

“We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.”

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what Gods grace means.”

“God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.”

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

“He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners.”

“Self rejection is the greatest enemy of spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a far larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.”

“By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.”

“I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because youre never going to be as you should be.”

“To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.”

“All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.”

“Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.”

“Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelitythat he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rainthat he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.”

“What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.”

“He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.”

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”

“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.”

“We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others.”

“My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.”

“When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.”

“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.”

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that he should bother to call us by name; our mouths wide open at his love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”