Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 10

• I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Views, Community

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• To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.

  John Wesley

  Spiritual, Law, Void

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.313

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• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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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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• In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Joy, Obedience

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• To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  God, Mother, Spiritual

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• Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Adversity

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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 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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• I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.

  Woody Harrelson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Strong

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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• The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Self, World Religions

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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