Quotes About Spiritual

However, the Word gives us a different perspective. Paul wrote, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16), and this includes the salutations and benedictions of the epistles. I am convinced they are not superficial formalities. They were inspired by the Holy Spirit to impart powerful spiritual blessing to all who read them.

A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

La música es la más inútil, biológicamente hablando, de todas las Artes, y, por ello, por su pavorosa y radical inutilidad, es la más grande de todas ellas; la menos irracional, la más intelectual, la más espiritual, la más humana, en tanto que esto signifique superación de los seres inferiores

a partir de ahora tendría que moverse entre multitud de seres cuyas úlceras no estaban el apiel o en las entrañas, sino en la mente: individuos llagados en el espíritu, tarados del alma

When I went on this trip I had a sexual/spiritual experience with a creature named Lucifer.

That many southerners in our modern-day society, as rockets were beginning to go up to the moon, were still not over this particular wounding shows in some way the extent of this physical and spiritual bloodbath.

faith presupposes reason and perfects it, and reason, enlightened by faith, finds the strength to rise to knowledge of God and spiritual realities'.15 For Ratzinger, faith and reason, theology and philosophy, are symbiotically, and not extrinsic-ally, related. Faith without reason ends in fideism, but reason without faith ends in nihilism.

Maybe it's God trying to comfort your heart. He does that, you know. The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter in the Bible. I reckon God wants us to find comfort and peace of mind, or He wouldn't have given us a Comforter.

There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting," he explained as he worked, "but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things-tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids-are they not celebrating God's creation as well?

Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.

BILL: Anyway, if you want me to explain the creepy character of the Midwest, you're asking the wrong— BARBARA: Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the Blues.

text of deaths in exorcisms gone awry in the United

spiritual awakening through which they would see that all their cherished patriotic ideals were no more than a deadly tissue of dreams.

Every spiritual investment will bear eternal interest. AMISH PROVERB

Individuals who undergo spiritual transformation as a result of their experiences, Mack said, are more "open to other realities beyond space/time…

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

If you will consistently speak the truth in love and display gracious firmness, you will grow in maturity and find that you are attracting a healthy crop of spiritually mature friends.*

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.

If we do not test ourselves daily, in seemingly small ways, our spiritual selves will never build the strength we will need when life's major trials are presented.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers.

You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.