Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 18

• In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Doe, Backwards

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• The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

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• If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Cutting, Body

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Unity, World

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception”, p.22, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Mind, Serious

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• What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

  Dani Shapiro

  Spiritual, Important, Essentials

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Powerful, Oneness

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• Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

  Tom Shadyac

  Spiritual, Keys, Simplicity

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• Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

  Octavius Winslow

  Spiritual, Prayer, Soul

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• God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Men, Consciousness

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Real, Persistence

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• Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Evil, Benefits

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

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• Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Self

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• Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

  Dorothy Day

  Spiritual, Facts, Life Is

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• It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

  Mary McCarthy

  Spiritual, Religious, Hero

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• No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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• Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Spiritual, Dark, Names

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• Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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• The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Spiritual, Divorce, Daily Activities

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, And Love, Grows

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