Spiritual Quotes - Page 24

• In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers.

  Ralph Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Order

  Ralph Martin (2006). “The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints”, p.203, Emmaus Road Publishing

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• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Mean, Heaven, House

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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• Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Promise, Matter, Never Forget

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.241, Discovery House

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• The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, God Fearing Man

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.

  Criss Jami

  People, Missing, Challenges

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Priorities, Being Cool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

  Criss Jami

  Vegetables, Suffering, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.46, Criss Jami

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• When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Kings, Moving

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Teacher, Opposites, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.

  Criss Jami

  People, Enemy, Devil

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.73, Criss Jami

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Giving Up, Real

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• Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Giving Up, Long, Compromise

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint. Chapter "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", p. 291, 1996.

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• A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Children, Caring, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Struggle, Hospitality, Awareness

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, School, Next Week

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Ideas, Perfect

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Worship You, Enlightenment, Distinction

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Process, Spiritual Life, Optimum

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

  Robert Musil

  Intellectual, Progress, Needs

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

  James Anthony Froude

  Thinking, Bird, Storm

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.59

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• Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Ideas, Mind

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (pp. 167-168), 1931.

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• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  Arthur Ashe

  Commitment, Pride, America

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

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• I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

  Paul Robeson

  Sorry, Pride, Intelligent

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Yes You Can, Long, Miracle

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