Spiritual Quotes - Page 23

• Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Dogma, Kernel, Left

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• When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Ideas

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teaching, Levels, Grows

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

  Rob Kall

  Teacher, Book, School

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• We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Needs, Ethics, Globalization

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• The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

  Alan Hirsch

  Culture, Complacency, Problem

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.42, Baker Books

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• We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Jesus, Giving, Justice

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• I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

  Jules Shear

  Believe, Mean, Persons

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• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  H. L. Mencken

  Branches, Poverty, Pedals

  "A Book of Prefaces". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1917.

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• In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Indifferent, Realms

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.796, e-artnow

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• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

  Luis Barragan

  Wall, Mistake, Glasses

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• I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.

  Yehuda Berg

  Jesus, Believe, Unity

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• A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

  Melvin Konner

  Healing, Differences, Touching

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• Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

  Dolores del Rio

  Years, Giving, Inner Beauty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

  Eric Butterworth

  Giving, Goal, Levels

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• The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.

  Stormie Omartian

  War, People, Evil

  Stormie Omartian (2013). “The 7-Day Prayer Warrior Experience (Free One-Week Devotional)”, p.1, Harvest House Publishers

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• You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.'

  Michael Harner

  Believe, Home, Government

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Light, Space

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• Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Loneliness, People, Water

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• The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Mistake, Rivers, Independence

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• Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Art, Passion, Self

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