Quotes About Spirituality

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

It is also instructive to pause and consider what Francis did not speak about. Nowhere in his writings does he ever mention his mother, for instance. Only directly does he ever speak of his father.... He was— at least at some level— a disrespectful son; he believed that he couldn't ultimately respect his earthly and heavenly fathers, both.

May the Lord give you peace," was Francis's most common remark to people. What a contrast this was to the apocalyptic fear-mongering of most other wandering spiritual groups in those days, and how different it was even from the doctrinaire preaching of the new Dominican Order.

The more I love people, the more I fall in love with God. The more I fall in love with God, the more I love people.

In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won't be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively , more unexpectedly. Christ will become That Man who changes people, someone who jumps off a bumper sticker and mediocre praise songs and into lives.

When you have sexual relations with someone, for example, there is a soul tie (emotional bonding) that generates because two fleshes become one (Genesis 2:24). Sexual relations in marriage generate a healthy soul tie while sexual relations outside of marriage create unhealthy soul ties.

A person that is humble of heart doesn't care about being the center of attention. They are interested in pleasing God rather than taking front stage. The spirit of witchcraft, in contrast, likes abnormal attention, but most importantly, attention behind the scenes. People operating in witchcraft don't want to share your attention with others but want to keep you totally for themselves.

If your emotions can be hooked, then they can gain a soul tie with you. If they can form a soul tie with you then they can control you. All abnormal soul ties need to be broken by the power of the Name of Jesus.

Ateina Kal?dos, ir aš pradedu galvoti apie snieg?. Rimti, praktiški žmon?s pasakys: tai sentimentalu. Bet tas nieko nepad?s. Aš vis galvoju apie snieg?. Kal?dos ir sniegas man beveik tas pats. Labai labai nekrikš?ioniška, kai kas pasakys. Bet tai netiesa. Aš žinau, Dievas myli snieg? lygiai kaip aš... nes jis j? padar?...

We have learned to eat like snakes. When there is something to eat - we eat enough to last for a week. When there is nothing - we don't eat. Now, when we get our food supply, we eat it all, right there, we leave nothing for tomorrow. Like the birds. And then we read our books. We go after spiritual food...

Keista švytuokl? žmogus. Atrodo, kiek išsimeti žv?rin, tiek sugr?žti žmogun. Kartais pamanau: net kad Diev? pajustum, reikia pirmiau b?ti geru velniu. Po moment?, kada neju?iom pasileidi, ištirpsti kurion nors padugn?n - tokiu ryškumu stojas prieš akis priešingyb? - švytuokl? jau kitoj pus?j.

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Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.

When he had gone, I lay in bed for a long time, listening to the voices of the choir at evensong. Outside, the darkness thickened and grew strange.

The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.

Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.