Quotes About Spiritual

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

Because Buddhism presents a spiritual argument for the transformation (not the medication) of suffering, as well as specific and systematic methods of analyzing subjective distress, it now assists me in being able to address audiences about the principles and uses of analytic psychotherapy.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

The representative of the highest spiritual authority of the earth is glad, indeed boasts, of being the son of a humble but robust and honest laborer.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

True peace can only be attained when spiritual and psychological balance is achieved.

In prayer you gain your strength—the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields.

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Scala separates the "goods" (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls "external goods.

The Holy Spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy Spirit, that same Spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Again, the emphasis of the language warns against regression, for it literally reads, "You have become having need of milk, not solid food."4 They had begun to eat solid food early on but were now back on the bottle. The truth is, there is simply no such thing as a static Christian. We either move forward or fall back. We are either climbing or falling. We are either winning or losing. Static, status quo Christianity is a delusion!

Therefore, the way for the Christian to avoid spiritual collapse is to consider Christ and the opposition He faced from the likes of sinners like Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate. Consider how He faced them with confidence, meekness, and strength.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

The colossal slide of integrity (especially masculine ethics) has grim spiritual, domestic, and political implications which threaten the survival of life as we know it.

In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

God's way of getting your attention.

There is a sacred science, and for thousands of years countless inquisitive people have sought in vain to penetrate its "secrets." It is as if they attempted to dig a hole in the sea with an ax. The tool must be of the same nature as the objective to be worked upon. Spirit is found only with spirit, and esoterism is the spiritual aspect of the world, inaccessible to cerebral intelligence. Those who profess to reveal the esoterism of such teachings are charlatans.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.

The resurrection of the body forbids us to despise the material realm.

When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish

We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.