“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
Thoughts on the beauty and importance of solitude in our spiritual progress. Oswald Chambers: “Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.” Thomas Merton: “Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you …
Quotes on being filled - or not being filled - by the Spirit of Christ in our daily living. Smith Wigglesworth: “The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an …
More thoughts from great thinkers across the centuries. Again, the theme is on repentance from sin. "Many think they repent when it is not the offense but the penalty that troubles them." - Thomas Watson "Learn this lesson: not to trust Christ because you repent, but trust Christ to make you repent; not to come …
Words of wisdom from great spiritual thinkers of today and days past. The theme for today's quotes is union with our God. Charles Spurgeon said this about union with our Christ: “There is no joy in this world like union with Christ. The more we can feel it, the happier we are.” John Eldredge speaks …
Quotes from my archive of great spiritual thinkers...and others. This post contains quotes on repentance and turning from sin toward our God. "Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them." - Matthew Henry "It is the greatest and …
Great quotes from great spiritual thinkers of yesterday and today. Today's quotes are on dealing with sin and pursuing repentance in our lives. "I learn from the Scriptures that repentance is just as necessary to salvation as faith is, and the faith that has not repentance going with it will have to be repented of." …
Great quotes from great spiritual thinkers of yesterday and today. Today's quotes are on dealing with sin and pursuing repentance in our lives. "How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?" --Oscar Wilde "Learn this lesson: not to trust Christ because you repent, but trust Christ to make you repent; not …
Great quotes from great spiritual thinkers of yesterday and today. Today's quotes are on entertaining sin and on repentance in our lives. "Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we …
Great quotes from great spiritual thinkers of yesterday and today. Today's quotes are on entertaining sin and on repentance in our lives. "People don’t do what they believe in—they just do what’s most convenient and then they repent." – Bob Dylan "The temptation of the age is to look good without being good." — Brennan …
Great quotes from great spiritual thinkers of yesterday and today. Today's quotes are on entertaining sin in our lives. "Sin is not to be ignored, nor minimised. It is the most patent fact in life, the darkest experience in the history of the race. It is the root of all the world's tragedies. It is …
