Quotes about spirit
spiritual teacher use
Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts. Eknath Easwaran
spiritual selfish attachment
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. Eknath Easwaran
spiritual lying moving
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship. Eknath Easwaran
spiritual character judging
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states. Eknath Easwaran
spiritual love-is giving
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love. Eknath Easwaran
spiritual heart soul
A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances. John Bunyan
spiritual giving principles
The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative Joel Osteen
spiritual birth made
Check your spiritual birth certificate, you were made in the mighty image of God. Joel Osteen
spiritual believe worry
I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action. Jody Williams
spiritual war evil
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question? John Hersey
spiritual children imagination
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. John Henrik Clarke
spiritual garden delight
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. John Henry Newman
spiritual infinite reason
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith. John Henry Newman
spiritual prayer drawing
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body. John Henry Newman
spiritual jesus world
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ? John Henry Newman
spiritual decision spending
Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision. John Hagee
spirit meekness spirit-of-god
Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God. John Hagee
spiritual art father
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven." John Hagee
spiritual communication heart
There are 3 levels of compatibility in intimate relationships that connect the most subtle realm of spirit to the most outer, dense form of body. There must be alignment in heart, through life view and spiritual intention; mind, through clear, open communication; and body, through physical chemistry. Compatibility on all 3 levels of heart, mind, and body is the ultimate love relationship, which everyone is seeking! John Friend
spiritual intimate spiritual-practice
Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices. John Friend
spiritual powerful most-powerful
It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements. John Friend
spiritual sensual passionate
Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. John Friend
spirit goodness
Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner. John Friend
spiritual religious views
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs. John Frusciante
spiritual guitar intellectual
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. John Frusciante
spirit courageous
Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now. John Densmore
spiritual ensemble rays
When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually. John Densmore
spirit melancholy spirit-of-god
Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper. John Donne
spiritual soul brain
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world. John Eccles
spiritual views afterlife
My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live. John Edward
spiritual adventure men
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. John Eldredge
spiritual war thinking
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage. John Eldredge
spiritual lying heart
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be. John Eldredge