spiritual exhaustion Quotes

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

I’ve had the cross around my neck for years and years and years, and now I want to put it down and fade away.

Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.