Quotes About Spiritual

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience

Light is the shadow of god

So in the first place, such things show clearly that the philosopher more than other men frees the soul from association with the body as much as possible?

En esa parte del alma, verdaderamente divina, es donde es preciso mirarse, y contemplar allí todo lo divino, es decir, Dios y la sabiduría, para conocerse a sí mismo perfectamente.

To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul id that which is to see.

But this ain't no physical battle we're dealing with, no matter how much you may wish it to be, no matter how much better you'd feel if life was all five-senses and manageable. We are at spiritual war. So we need spiritual weapons.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10–20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We

There's a sneaky, malicious enemy that you are always in a battle with—even now.

In spiritual warfare, as we detect enemy activity and deploy the various pieces of armor, our prayers need to be fervent and specific, strategic and personal, tied to the specific needs arising at that specific occasion.

In order to live in victory, you must call the enemy's bluff, pull the curtain back, open up your spiritual eyes, and remain continually aware of the one who's truly behind a lot of the stuff you're always blaming on your circumstances, your upbringing, your boyfriend, or whoever. Even on yourself.

Truth—God's standard and viewpoint about us—must come first in our hearts and minds if we want to be effective in battle against the enemy.

I resolved to stop using physical means to fight battles that require spiritual remedies, using instead the power of prayer to do what it's always been designed to do.

Through prayer you'll not only be able to defend yourself from incoming sniper fire but through Almighty God will be able to push into enemy territory and take . . . stuff . . . back.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10–20).

Stand firm therefore . . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness.—Ephesians 6:14 nasb

The Bible was not given to replace the supernatural or miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.

Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.

I don't know whether to call a medical doctor or psychiatrist," she said to Bailey, "but I refuse to call an exorcist.

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing

His heart knocked as if on Heaven's door.

on such matters as reincarnation, poltergeists, astral projection, and spontaneous human combustion.

As the spiritual coordinator for this part of Tacoma, Celeste Chapeaux had been assigned to oversee Harry.