Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 8

• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Being There

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Quality, Desert

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.179, Hay House, Inc

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• genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Spiritual, Men, Unique

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• Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Pain, Believe

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Handle Adversity”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Children, Men

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• Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Life, Spiritual, Honesty

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• Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sacred

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• I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.

  Eugenia Price

  Christian, Spiritual, Hair

  EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”

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• It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Memories, Block

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Children, Attachment

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1960). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Fall, Careers

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• It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  God, Spiritual, Order

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• [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

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• If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Real, Two

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

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• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Spiritual, Questions And Answers, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

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• The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Lying, Wrestling

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• Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Recovery, Commitment

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• He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

  Jean-Pierre Camus

  Spiritual, Believe, Made

  Jean–Pierre Camus, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spirit of Saint Francis De Sales”, p.505, Aeterna Press

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• In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, Battle

  E. Stanley Jones (2015). “How to Pray”, p.3, Ravenio Books

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• In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Lines, Steps

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• The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.

  Michael Huffington

  Spiritual, Jobs, Order

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

  Andy Murray

  Spiritual, Prayer, Healthy

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