Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 18

• It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humility, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

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• Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Self

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• Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

  Dorothy Day

  Spiritual, Facts, Life Is

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• It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

  Mary McCarthy

  Spiritual, Religious, Hero

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• No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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• Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Spiritual, Dark, Names

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• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

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• Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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• The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Spiritual, Divorce, Daily Activities

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Evil, Benefits

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Real, Persistence

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• God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Men, Consciousness

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.

  Bo Sanchez

  Spiritual, Jobs, Lunch

  Bo Sanchez “You Have The Power To Create Love”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Practice, Important

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• The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

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• We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.

  Theodore Epp

  Spiritual, Yield, Evil

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• There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Powerful, Oneness

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• You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Pain, Escaping

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

  Prentice Mulford

  Spiritual, Grieving, Discovery

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.800, e-artnow

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• Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Solitude, Impossible

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.4, HarperCollins

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• Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

  Tom Shadyac

  Spiritual, Keys, Simplicity

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• Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

  Octavius Winslow

  Spiritual, Prayer, Soul

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• We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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• Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, And Love, Grows

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