Quotes About Spiritual

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities.

Lo espiritual y lo físico se habían fundido en nosotros con perfección tal que no puede sino resultar incomprensible para los jovenzuelos materialistas, rudos y de mentes uniformes, típicos de nuestro tiempo.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Thomas Mann, a German émigré, said precisely that: "I am painfully familiar with certain political trends, spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency' … that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what followed fascism was war.")

reached its second or third or final stage."10 (Indeed, on November 2, 1947, writer Thomas Mann, a German émigré, said precisely that: "I am painfully familiar with certain political trends, spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency' … that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what followed fascism was war.")11

Yitzhak Sadeh was the spiritual father of the Haganah and the founder of its elite striking force, the Palmach.

With the Crusades, spiritual apartheid became systematic slaughter. Shrieking their cry "Deus vult! God wills it!," the Crusaders fell on every hapless Jewish community on their route to Jerusalem.

Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God's presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit's power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God's nature by how they relate.

In contrast, an educational approach is heavily front-loaded. It expects people to work through a curriculum or set of experiences to be certified as spiritually mature or ready for leadership.

I believe the primary reason for our long run of spiritual and cultural setbacks is something else. It's sin in the camp.

To be structured for spiritual growth, a church (whether front-door or back-door focused) must have some sort of method in place to consistently connect people to both significant relationships and the Bible.

A Radically Different View of Authority Another major difference between the places where Cho's model leads to explosive growth and the places where it flounders can be found in their radically different views of spiritual authority.

Silence as I am using the term is a dimension of existence. You can live in it. It is what spiritual life is all about. It is quite literally unfathomable, limitless space permeated by a vast stillness. In a way it is inside us—that is where we seek it—though at some point in our exploration words like inside and outside, all the spatial terms I've been forced to use, don't mean a thing.

The third type of haunting is an inhuman or demonic haunting. In

Porque parir es pasar de un estadio a otro. Es un quiebre espiritual. Y, como todo rompimiento, duele. El parto no es una enfermedad para curar. Es el pasaje a otra dimensión. Ahora bien, "partir" del mundo de las formas solo es posible si alguien nos sostiene. Si contamos con un acompañamiento amoroso por parte de un profesional o un ser querido dispuesto a mirarnos y a estar a nuestro servicio.

You cannot hold eternity in your hand, but you feel it in your heart; you know it in your soul.

Each note floated over the listeners like a feather held aloft by the breath of angels.

We are not human beings on a spiritual path, but spiritual beings on a human path.

In the crisis moments, I was desperate to narrate. As I moved somewhere else spiritually, out of crisis and into a new odd calm, I was more peaceably floating through whatever was happening. I wanted to record moments, but not so intently to tell stories.

Only Christmas is over, and there were no angels.

The inner power of life within you is the divine and the divine has all power.

The physical universe is sacred and just as 'spiritual' as any 'soul' that priest and theologians might think up.