Quotes About Spiritual life

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

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.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

But it's possible to be wry and somewhat skeptical about the tedious, expensive process of saint-making without losing sight of the person at the center. Without saints, sanctity might be considered only as an abstraction. Saints help us see how a spiritual life can be lived in many different ways and under many different social and historical circumstances.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

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.

The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

What happens then? The hypnotism is dissipated and you are living a spiritual life, a God life. God was doing its job all the time. God was always manifesting its spiritual perfection as you, but only by seeing through a glass darkly did you see yourself in sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation.

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.

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.