Quotes About Spiritual

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

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

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.

There's more to life than physical and material.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding. But without your curiosity and questions, there is no path, no journey to be taken, even if you adopt all the forms of the tradition.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.

Ronny's religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form, and condemned as 'weakening' any attempt to understand them.

He has dreams—not exactly spiritual dreams: but dreams of the tangible and the actual: robust dreams, which take him, not to heaven, but another earth.

Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.