Matthew Henry Quotes

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

Pray in faith.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

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

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.