The Spiritual Life Quotes

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to the hidden, spiritual things of life.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.