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Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.
"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.
My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.
Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.
The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.