Spiritual Cost Quotes

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

What has a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

No more free steps to heaven.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.