Spiritual Contrast Quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.

The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?