Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 3

• If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Empathy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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• A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Life, Spiritual, Simple

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• Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Self

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2014

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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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. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Love, Spiritual, Powerful

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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 he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Men, Careers

  Evelyn Underhill (1914). “Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People”

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Love, Faith, Mother

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• Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

  Sivananda

  Life, Spiritual, Practice

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• The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Essence, Use

  Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Spiritual, Pioneers

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• The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Yardsticks, Realizing

  Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Life Lesson

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• The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.9, HarperCollins

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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 is our relationship to the early morning.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Morning, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (1997). “God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me”, Discovery House Pub

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• True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Spiritual, Goal, Aim

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• Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

  Sting

  Spiritual, Lips, Lip Service

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• Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Reading, Discipline

  "On Reading".

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• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Leaving

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• The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Soul, Individual

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.51, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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