Top 100 Christian Spirituality Quotes
#1. A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying valleys and the rocky slopes in between all those glorious summits.
Andrew Byers
#2. Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.
Donald Miller
#3. Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
Donald Miller
#4. I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul.
Donald Miller
#5. For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.
Donald Miller
#6. The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
Donald Miller
#7. Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.
Eugene H. Peterson
#8. Christian spirituality does not rest on mysticism; it rests in a Mediator.
Kevin DeYoung
#9. Authentic Christian spirituality is a team sport, not an individual endeavor.
Derek Olsen
#10. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.
Donald Miller
#11. I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back.
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller
#12. Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.
N. T. Wright
#13. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.
Donald Miller
#14. If the heart of Christian spirituality is to increasingly become like our founder, then an authentic comprehension of Jesus becomes critical.
Michael Frost
#18. Once we got closer to the origins of these Eastern practices, we found that the monks and swamis were just as dogmatic and paternalistic, just as literal and conservative in their approach to spirituality as the Christian priests and ministers we were trying to get away from.
Gudjon Bergmann
#20. Everyday should be Christmas. Christ first loved us, we ought to love one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.
Ray Simpson
#23. Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism
' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.
Robert Ellsberg
#25. Benedict and Bernard and the other true monastic peacemakers of history have been effective because they have acted from a deep source of peace within themselves, dating a context for peace. This is the contribution a Christian man or woman of peace can make.
M. Basil Pennington
#27. A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning
-Drunk Dialing the Divine
Amber Koneval
#30. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#32. God loves our attention, sometimes adversity is away to draw us closer to Him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
Stormie O'martian
#40. For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#41. We feel like acting like a Christian, following the steps of Christ, is much more important than following a doctrine.
Isabel Ruiz Lucero
#47. If you want to grow spiritually, the place to start is with God.
Elizabeth George
#51. Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.
Christian Hunt
#52. Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.
Elder Porphyrios
#53. Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#56. The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!
Gary Patton
#65. Death is the destiny of every man.
Every man must know this to live wisely.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#67. Prior to postmodernism, it was all but impossible to claim that one was a cultural Christian, Jew, or Muslim. There was no such thing. Now, being culturally religious is a widely accepted stance.
Gudjon Bergmann
#68. Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
Joshua Roman
#70. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them.
Stormie O'martian
#74. As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
Rachel Held Evans
#77. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.
Stormie O'martian
#82. The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through my life as a Christian. True spirituality does not stop at the negative (death), but without the negative - in comprehension and in practice - we are not ready to go on.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#83. I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.
Elvia Alvarado
#90. That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.
Charles C. Ryrie
#92. Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ. 38
M. Basil Pennington
#95. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!
Eli Of Kittim
#98. There is grace for survival; I survived two years without a regular salary.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
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