Quotes About Spiritual

Human nature always retains its spiritual character - its bond with the transcendent and the divine. If it were to lose this, it must lose itself and become the servant of lower powers, so that secular civilization, as Nietzsche saw, inevitably leads to nihilism and to self-destruction.

In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody—in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"—the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

God's camera takes snapshots that don't fall into your hand like Polaroids do. They pop right into your head and stay there forever.

There are certain spiritual dynamics that happen in each watch. There are certain victories that are only gained during certain watches.

It's not our job to save souls. That's the Holy Spirit's job. If people come to faith, it's because the Holy Spirit regenerated them in their innermost being. He made them new creations in Christ.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

Nossos sentimentos e pensamentos são tão sobrenaturais como uma história passada depois da morte.

The rosary is not a spiritual practice to be perfected with effort. It is a devotion that reminds us of our connection to a Mother whose very body is our planet and our home.

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whoso-ever will, let him come" doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Is there anyone who really believes that we could be 'post racial' in a culture that fetishizes black athletes, equates black style with rebelliousness, pillages indigenous belief systems for pithy profundities to satisfy the spiritual cravings of secular materialists, and then depends on cheap immigrant labor, redlining, and mass incarceration to safeguard class hierarchies that are obviously racialized?

Our spiritual evolution depends heavily upon our recovery from our worst addiction—our addiction to the victim archetype, which traps us in the past and saps our life energy. The inner child represents nothing but a metaphor for our woundedness and a cutesy form of victim consciousness.

Looked at from a spiritual standpoint, our discomfort in any given situation provides a signal that we are out of alignment with spiritual law and are being given an opportunity to heal something. It

nuestro malestar en cualquier situación es un aviso de que no estamos alineados con la ley espiritual y que se nos está proporcionando la ocasión de sanar algo.

As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.

The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.

The Jewish Sabbath may be too hard for some people, or they may not subscribe to its ideas; but within its own terms it is a dramatic ceremony penetrating all of life. It is not simply a day off. This demanding rite turns twenty-four hours of every week into a separated time, apart in mood, texture, acts, and events from daily existence.

74. The Earth is brutish; the Heaven is reasonable or rational.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others -- existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.