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6612 Spiritual quotes by 2278 unique authors
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life…
— Oswald Chambers
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that…
— Oswald Chambers
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The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and…
— Watchman Nee
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Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of…
— Watchman Nee
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring,…
— Watchman Nee
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
— Marshall McLuhan
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There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain…
— Alexander Whyte
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I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most…
— Lee Strobel
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as…
— Swami Vivekananda
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More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader…
— Lance Secretan
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary…
— Alain LeRoy Locke
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It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference…
— Maude Royden
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For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative…
— Agnivesh
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The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
— J. William Fulbright
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Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.
— Tom Osborne
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Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
— George C. Marshall
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