Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 20

• Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Spiritual, Holy Eucharist, Age

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• Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

  Ignazio Silone

  Spiritual, Struggle, Risk

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• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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• If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Spiritual, Source

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• A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Exercise, Night

  Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “From Amma's Heart”, p.58, M A Center

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• Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Space, Discipline

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Lent and Easter Wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Nouwen's Own Words”

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• Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Heart

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• Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Practice, Joy

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• The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs later. But if a person is already justified and has sins forgiven eternally at the point of saving faith, then baptism is not necessary for forgiveness of sins nor for the bestowal of new spiritual life. Baptism, then, is not necessary for salvation. But it is necessary if we are to be obedient to Christ, for he commanded baptism for all who believe in him.

  Wayne Grudem

  Spiritual, Believe, Water

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• If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Pay The Price, Principles

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• That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, People, Fluffy

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• The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.

  Diana L. Eck

  Spiritual, Journey, Practice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Trying, Weakness

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Helping

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

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• Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, People

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 16, 2014

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• In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

  Joyce Meyer

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Needs

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• Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Honesty, Humility

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• Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Spiritual, Strong, Book

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• You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.

  Steve McVey

  Spiritual, Two, Who We Are

  Steve McVey (2011). “52 Lies Heard in Church Every Sunday”, p.93, Harvest House Publishers

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