Quotes About Spiritual

Grace in the soul is a new life in the soul.

thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

Ministers are to give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine (1 Tim. 4:13); they are not to entangle themselves with the affairs of this life (2 Tim. 2:4), and therefore it is but fit and equitable that, while they are sowing to others spiritual things, they should reap their carnal things.

The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity, and what we should be most solicitous about for ourselves and others.

Nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, or feast upon it, who are not first circumcised in heart, Col. 2:11.

Conversion and sanctification are the renewing of the mind, a change not of the substance, but of the qualities of the soul.

The word of God is the manna by which our souls are nourished, Matt. 4:4.

We must be the sons of God both by adoption and regeneration, before we can be

In hearing the word, we look into it for counsel and direction, and when we study it, it turns to our spiritual life. Those

Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of a man's spiritual state than the heart's rising in self-conceit, confidence in the flesh, and resistance of the reproofs of the word and strivings of the Spirit.

It is time to stop searching for worldly solutions to spiritual problems.

our quest for intimacy we must move beyond our preoccupation with the physical and understand what each of the four aspects has to contribute to our relationships. Physical intimacy is limited. But emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacies are limitless, and relatively unexplored. And, truth be told, if you truly wish to experience the upper reaches of physical intimacy you must first explore and develop the depths of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacy.

Entonces, cuando los pecadores no tienen sentido de su condición espiritual, es claro que están muertos en pecado; las señales de la muerte eterna están sobre ellos.

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.

I always used to say, "Herbs work on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of existence." Later I came to understand that they also work on the magical level.

The psychoanalysis of objective knowledge is interminable, or rather...like every psychoanalysis, it is destined not to suppress the past, the phantasms, but to transform them from powers of death into poetic productivity, and...the very idea of objective knowledge and the idea of algorithm as a spiritual automaton and finally the idea of an object that informs itself and knows itself are, as much as any other ideas, and more than any other, supported by our reveries.

This is important because we will never help others become fully devoted followers of Christ unless we are fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves, and we will never be fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves until we have mastered the challenge of personal growth in the spiritually toxic twenty-first century.

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.

At thirty-six, Margaret believed her "mind and character" were already "too much formed" through "a liberal communion with the woful struggling crowd of fellow men." She had instead worked for a living and reaped the "fruits of spiritual knowledge" these past ten years, seeking common cause with the laborer, the immigrant, the prostitute.

Being peaceful is being angel!

Every tree is an angel!

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.

If there are paranormal elements use words like "demon" or "worlds colliding.