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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
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.
extremes ifs regard
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. Blaise Pascal
extremes best-things
The best things are placed between extremes. Aristotle
extremes goes good hard inside minds predict pushes tick
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good. Tommy Mottola
extremes absolutes
I trust that absolutes have gradations. Jane Austen
extremes hostile
There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other, Jeffrey Schloss
extremes visual warning
That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.
extremes
And the extremes are what make the show so funny.
extremes position moderates
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche
extremes sour survive third towards
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Yotam Ottolenghi
extremity few good human laws nations produce prudent slow succession till transition waited
Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! Cesare Beccaria