Carl Jung Quotes

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I don't think God's through with me.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.

Like so many other people I was raised right, went crazy but I always knew God had His hand on me.

I believe my life has been covered by grace since I trusted in Christ at age 13. I just had to turn 40 to notice.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.