Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health Quotes

“Too much attention to a particular sin or sins, and/or too little attention to communion with God (two things that often occur in tandem) inevitably shrivel the soul of a Christian.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“Devote yourself more to the pursuit of Christlikeness and the enjoyment of God through the spiritual disciplines than to the pursuit of efficiency and the completion of to-do lists.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“God inspired both King David and the apostle Paul to write, "there is none who seeks after God" (Psalm 14:2; Romans 3:11). Until and unless the Holy Spirit of God touches the spiritual tongue of the empty soul, that soul will never want to "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8).”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“As Augustine attested, "Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee." Always searching and never resting, the empty soul turns from one pursuit to another, unable to find anything that will fill the God-shaped vacuum in his heart.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“The English Puritans of 1550 to 1700 used to refer to ministers as "physicians of the soul.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“The irony of the empty soul is that while he is perpetually dissatisfied in so many areas, he is so easily satisfied in regard to the pursuit of God.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

“Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?”
― Donald S. Whitney, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health