Quotes about spirit
spiritual sublime dear-god
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. Francis of Assisi
spiritual prayer sadness
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.
spiritual children couple
The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them. Francis Collins
spiritual acceptance world
When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors. Francis Chan
spiritual world christ
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. Francis Bacon
spiritual journey maturity
Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
spirituality grows humans
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality. Jean Vanier
spiritual reality self
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action. Jiddu Krishnamurti
spiritual light meditation
Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.
spiritual reality generosity
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
spiritual mastery awakening
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
spiritual mind awakening
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
spiritual smell dying
When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans. Goldie Hawn
spiritual giving listening
Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person. Harriet Lerner
spiritual self desire
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life. Harriet Martineau
spiritual struggle risk
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. Ignazio Silone
spiritual world language
Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
spiritual woe steps
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
spiritual father teaching
Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God. Ignatius of Antioch
spiritual fever chill
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. Ignatius of Loyola
spiritual exercise order
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
spiritual opposites quality
Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place. Iggy Pop
spiritual challenges soul
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise. Iain Banks
spiritual lying believe
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. Hugh Walpole
spiritual important desire
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. Guy Finley
spiritual needs realizing
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
spiritual dark light
A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.
spiritual clever lying
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
spiritual light consciousness
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
spiritual wisdom limits
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.
spirit spirit-and-spirituality
He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.
spiritual atheist evil
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness. Friedrich Nietzsche
spiritual greatness blood
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?