Quotes About Spiritual

Made up of some holy freaking atoms.

Inspiration, Admiration - Motivation [I AM]- a very well defined characteristic of the SOUL.

The Holy Bible is the written code of holy teachings.

The only spiritual soul can obey's the spiritual law.

You have to go through the spiritual fires to know the strength of your faith.

The heart is a sacred home.

The city of God is filled with glorious things.

God is our Spiritual Father.

May God deliver us from every sinful nature of the soulful flesh.

The Holy Scripture reveals spiritual realities.

Heaven in not out there, it is in your blissful heart.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

James directed that when the patient discusses his sickness with the elders and prayer is made, the possibility of sickness as the result of sin ought to be discussed. If sin is found in the background of the problem, it must be confessed.

The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17).

Neither the spiritual nor the material repression of sadness reflects the depth of contemplative life. The great irony is that the very effort to feel joy (or relief) prevents its fruition. Perhaps counterintuitively, it is the surrender to sadness that causes it to pass—not the suppression of it. The gestures of opening, making-space, giving-way—these enable a delicious relinquishment, a setting down of the burden, even, perhaps, a kind of wisdom.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

Salvation is represented here as the response to a Call coming from below, like an awakening out of deep sleep...

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

Synchronicity has been defined, tongue-in-cheek, as "God acting anonymously," which nonetheless alludes to an awe that can accompany an especially uncanny and significant synchronicity. Maybe we should think of it as "Sophia acting anonymously," when we know through the synchronicity that there is no adequate explanation for how this could happen other than that we are part of an interconnected spiritual universe that has just shown us that we matter.

Obviously, insights gained from gnosis are rarely welcomed as topics of conversation at social gatherings. To break the silence and speak about what you know to be your spiritual reality, or tell another about a numinous experience or your philosophical insights or take up a religious vocation becomes possible for many women only when they are over fifty and have found friends with spiritual depth.

Jesus said, But I am "alive"! It's the same material but lighter, summer stuff, star-coil, Akhmatova's hair...

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot achieve no-self. That's why anyone who wants to sell enlightenment must first reduce it to more manageable proportions; to something ego can achieve. Enlightenment Lite: Less demanding, feels great. Enlitenment.