Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 3

• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Reading, Discipline

  "On Reading".

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Exercise

  "The Wisdom of the Desert".

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• I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Mean, Judging

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• What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Spiritual, Past

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Self

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2014

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• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Leaving

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• The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Soul, Individual

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.51, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Yardsticks, Realizing

  Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Life Lesson

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• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Men, Careers

  Evelyn Underhill (1914). “Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People”

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• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  Hugh Walpole

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Life, Spiritual, Simple

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• Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Spiritual, Giving

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• The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Love, Faith, Mother

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• ... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Husband, Men

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• In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Empathy

  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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• Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Love, Spiritual, Powerful

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