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spiritual attitude taken
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him. Charles Dickens
spiritual men animal
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
spiritual victory knees
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory. Charles Stanley
spiritual children use
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
spiritual adversity growth
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.
spiritual growth events
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
spiritual pain believe
Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.
spiritual forever
I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever. Charles Spurgeon
spiritual hate giving
The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.
temptation wealth snares
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
temptation important weakness
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
temptation sometimes christ
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
temptation elbows
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
temptation duty temptation-life
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Earl Wilson
temptation terrible be-good
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
temptation literature terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
temptation chinese succeed
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
catholic too-much belief
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private. Alan Alda
catholic doe shapes
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
catholic evolution proposal
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. Arthur Peacocke
catholic monk educated
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic. Antony Gormley
catholic minnesota proud
I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family. Denis McDonough
catholic
I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word. Denis Leary
catholic police church
I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church. Bill Maher
catholic pastor persecution
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor. Bernard of Clairvaux
catholic wish desire
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.