Spiritual Life Quotes
362 Spiritual Life quotes by 178 unique authors
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me.…
— David Bowie
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past…
— William Ellery Channing
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A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that…
— Andrew Cohen
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A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
— Mark the Evangelist
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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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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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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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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make,…
— Unknown Author
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A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
— Sri Chinmoy
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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
— Jack Kornfield
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Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved.…
— Ajahn Brahm
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and…
— Henri Nouwen
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until…
— Evelyn Underhill
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch…
— Edmund Husserl
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
— Thomas More
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Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and…
— Rajneesh
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The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go…
— Radhanath Swami
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If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
— Henri Nouwen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly…
— John Owen
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When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much…
— Unknown Author
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