Spiritual Loss Quotes

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

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.

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!

Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.