Spiritual Quotes - Page 39

• The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Selfish, Attachment, Action

  Eknath Easwaran (2000). “A More Ardent Fire”, p.111, Nilgiri Press

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• I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Opportunity, Favors

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• The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religious, Struggle

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• God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.

  J.R. Miller

  Eye, Sunshine, Blessing

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• There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Differences, Memorial

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• Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Commitment, Loss, Challenges

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• Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

  David A. Bednar

  Promise, Identity, Covenant

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• Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

  Mark Batterson

  Growth, Half, Knows

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.49, Multnomah

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• We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Independent, Reality, Emotional

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• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  J. C. Chandor

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• No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Education, Names, Growth

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.95

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• Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Men, Self

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.71

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Feelings, Shadow

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Wall, Cheer, Heart

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• It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Doctrine, Generations

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• Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Animal, Men, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.168

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• He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Hero, Passion

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• It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Winter

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Mysterious Stranger”, Mark Twain

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• Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Teacher, Hero

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.11

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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Age, Pits

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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Giving, Joy, Unity

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Discovery, Journal

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Faith is the spiritual house in which we live.

  Faith Baldwin

  House

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• Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

  Heinrich Heine

  War, Men, Enemy

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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

  Kaskade

  Uplifting, Hymns, People

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