Spiritual Disciplines Quotes - Page 2

• It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Practice

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• I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Discipline, People

  Robert E. Webber, Lester Ruth (2013). “Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition”, p.51, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.

  Marcus Borg

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

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• Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

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• Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Mind

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• A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Spiritual, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1302, e-artnow

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• Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Discipline, Together

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Country, Heart

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• Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Spiritual, Writing

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• A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Depression, Spiritual, Inability To Love

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• Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Discipline, Common Sense

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• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 03, 2015

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• I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Book, Discipline

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• A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Discipline

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

  Tilda Swinton

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Artist

  "‘Doctor Strange’ Interview: Tilda Swinton Talks About Her Transformation Into The Ancient One". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. September 28, 2016.

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