Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 10

• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

  Brennan Manning

  Healing, Past, Light

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• In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Soldier, Wounded

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.13, NavPress

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• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

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• Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Spiritual, Wrath, Evil

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• Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Dirty, Home

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• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Strength, Spiritual

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• "Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."

  Seraphim Rose

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Goal, Life Is

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• If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.200, Crown

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• If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

  Abraham Cahan

  Spiritual, Race, People

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Spiritual, Soul, Life Without Music

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• The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

  George Muller

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  George Muller (2013). “Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Spiritual, Jesus, Soul

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• But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in "contemplation" with a big "C," or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Laughter, Sky

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.35, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Spiritual, Prayer, Smart

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• Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or lack of love. His basic notion of the shadow was simple: ‘the shadow is the person you would rather not be.’ He believed that integrating the shadow would have a profound impact, enabling us to rediscover a deeper source of our own spiritual life. ‘To do this,’ Jung said, ‘we are obliged to struggle with evil, confront the shadow, to integrate the devil. There is no other choice.’

  Debbie Ford

  Spiritual, Struggle, Ignorance

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Spiritual, Fall

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

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• The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

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• This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Men, Keys

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.22, Rabindranath Tagore

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• For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Ideas, Support

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.51, Sahitya Akademi

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• There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

  William James

  Life, Spiritual, Night

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• I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

  Lou Holtz

  Spiritual, Believe, Important

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• Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Spiritual, Journey, Compassion

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.125, New World Library

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• To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Animal, Body

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