Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dallas Willard

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

Dallas Willard

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.

Dallas Willard

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

Dallas Willard

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

Dallas Willard

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

David Blankenhorn

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

David Bohm

Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.

David Bowie

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

David Jeremiah

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

David Jeremiah

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

David Jeremiah

You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

David Jeremiah

If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

Deepak Chopra

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Deepak Chopra

The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.

Deepak Chopra

If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

Deepak Chopra

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

Deepak Chopra

I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.

Deepak Chopra

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Deepak Chopra

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

Deepak Chopra

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

Deepak Chopra

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

Deepak Chopra

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Deepak Chopra

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

Deepak Chopra

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

Deepak Chopra

You are here for a reason.

Deepak Chopra

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

Deepak Chopra

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Deepak Chopra

At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.

Deepak Chopra

An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.