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spring communication winter
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. Charles Dickens
spring adversity mind
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear. Charles Caleb Colton
spring sacrifice self
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
spring london parks
If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.
spring dark light
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
spring sorrow affliction
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing. Charles Spurgeon
spring flower light
A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
spring book sea
You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.
spring believe calvinism
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
divinity fool helping
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
divinity unfolding miraculous
True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. Deepak Chopra
divinity divine chaucer
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
divinity sparks genius
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. Benjamin Haydon
divinity adore
Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. Baltasar Gracian
divinity bears earth
What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark. Blaise Pascal
divinity endeavor hides humanness overcome since
Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes. Sathya Baba
divinity intimate lacking
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. Aristotle
divinity sparks god-image
Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.
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.
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.
spirit purity spirit-of-god
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.
spirit existence sweetness
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
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.