Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life goes through alternating phases in which God successively shows and hides himself, makes himself heard and is quiet. Prayer… — Robert Cardinal Sarah Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The choice is to live a spiritual life; to live a bigger life; to live a life of service to Earth and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first… — D. R. Khashaba Copy Share Image
“Some skeptics assert that there is no other vital energy in the world but physical force, while contrary to their assertions, thousands… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Since the basic cause of man’s anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it follows that there… — Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D.,D.D Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I had reached the point, at Balbec, of regarding the pleasure of playing with a troop of girls as less destructive of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
“Oneness among believers does not need to be organized. Loving one another in one body is innate in each believer, based on the… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth,… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Too much concern about physical security and too little concern about spirituality is the hallmark of today's world. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Dogs are gods - beautiful, benign, and bereft of malice. Humans, and their gods, are bad dogs - cruel, crass, and full… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“To form the habit of finding fault constantly, is very damaging to spiritual life; it is about the lowest and meanest position… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
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