Natalie Cole Quotes

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

God always wants us to be growing.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.