Quotes About Spiritual

Again, behavior is the criterion, and since the devotee is the standard for the most important part of life – spiritual advancement – his misbehavior is the greatest disservice to society.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion—all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace; reading more, sick with rage.

Our arrogance causes us to imagine special value in this temporary collection of molecules. Why do we perceive more spiritual value in the sum of our body parts than on any individual cell in our body? Why don't we hold funerals when skin cells die?

How can something that doesn't exist in physical form have influence over the things that do?

St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.

Only Christ can give us food that satisfies our spiritual hunger and gives everlasting

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse

Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).

cada persona humana tiene un ángel custodio, lo mismo tienen las naciones (cf. Dn 10, 13; 10, 20, y 12, 1), y las iglesias (cf. Apoc 2, 1. 8. 12, por ejemplo).

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

The Mass, it seems, is like the Normandy invasion in the spiritual realm.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant "invisible world" or "the land of the dead.

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.

As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us the fundamental enjoyment of being (?? ?????), the scriptural law the enjoyment of a higher well-being (?? ?? ?????), the spiritual law the beatific grace of eternal well-being (?? ??? ?? ?????).

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a mood that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else's love, it's generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.