Quotes about spiritual
spiritual ocean order
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it. Meher Baba
spiritual wisdom views
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment. Meher Baba
spiritual mind bliss
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness. Meher Baba
spiritual people solitude
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.
spiritual men tasks
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
spiritual lying comfort
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
spiritual air sun
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
spiritual cost should
It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
spirituality
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
spiritual silence universe
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
spiritual simple people
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
spiritual changed spiritual-food
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
spiritual thinking worry
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
spiritual butterfly psych
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message...that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. Mary Meeker
spiritual order world
You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about. Mary Oliver
spiritual poetry curiosity
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language. Mary Oliver
spiritual fun lovely
The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery. Mary Oliver
spiritual needs wounds
Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. Martin Amis
spiritual despair desert
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. Pope Benedict XVI
spiritual excellence church
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. Pope Benedict XVI
spiritual jesus easter
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism. Pope Benedict XVI
spiritual men hands
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female. Pope John Paul II
spiritual prayer heart
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life. Pope John Paul II
spiritual prayer men
...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church. Pope John Paul II
spiritual art reality
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. Piet Mondrian
spiritual art philosophy
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art... Piet Mondrian
spiritual reading people
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing. Pope Francis
spiritual sick church
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick. Pope Francis
spiritual soul church
Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church! Pope Francis
spiritual country poverty
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. Pope Francis
spiritual wisdom attitude
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path. Pope Francis
spiritual medicine rosary
The rosary is spiritual medicine. Pope Francis
spiritual children integrity
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities. Pope Francis