Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 12

• One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Tired

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• There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Thinking, Wish

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.57, St Athanasius Press

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• Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Hurtful, Body

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• I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Successful

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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• The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Choices, Influence

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• If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Spiritual, Fool, Masters

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• In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Determination, Honesty

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Christ

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.123, Image

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• The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Life Is, Obedience

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.266, Discovery House

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• it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reality, Events

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• When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

  Watchman Nee

  Wise, Spiritual, Book

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.71, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.

  Louis de Montfort

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Color, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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• Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

  Sting

  Spiritual, Yoga, Life Is

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• In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

  Tiger Woods

  Spiritual, Balance, Needs

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• Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Reality

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Divine

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.48, NavPress

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• I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

  J. D. Salinger

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Spiritual, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

  Sam Harris

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.85, Multnomah

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• Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Rain, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.204, Anchor

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• If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Want, Life Is

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Creativity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Practice

  Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

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