A Quotes
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“A spinster who cannot ‘spin’ a worthwhile ‘star’ is a fallen ‘star’.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A spiral seems more complicated and longer than a line. To see things from all viewpoints is an advantage”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“A spirit is a great definition for me.”
“A spirit is like a nucleus of an atom—invisible but infinite.”
“A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.”
“A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.”
Source: Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches
“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.”
Source: On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living
“A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways―the ways that will never return.”
Source: The Apothecary’s House
“A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.”
Source: Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
“A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.”
“A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted
“A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.”
Source: Three plays
“A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.”
“A spiritual acceleration period is going to absolutely summon block-heads in sight but out of reach, as they will serve as road markers going the opposite way that uy're facing. This is positive signage that you're moving in the proper direction.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“A spiritual being loves because no other way than Love is known. It is not dependent on the presence of another. Nor is it halted by the actions of another.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.”
“A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.”
“A spiritual connection is a great help in becoming a world leading expert in many disciplines.”
“A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.”
“A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action which places us in a position to receive from God the power to do what we cannot accomplish on our own....
The deep waters of God's life are already flowing. We simply learn the strokes that will enable us more and more to be at home in them....
The human body is our power-pack of mind-body-spirit -- we discipline it in order to practice cooperation with God. (Life with God, p. 135-137)”
“A spiritual experience gives a person a feeling of profound connection with something beyond themselves. That something doesn’t have to be a god. It could be a place, a person, a tradition, or an idea. Anything, potentially, can be connected with. The spiritual experience breaks down the isolation of self, deepening a feeling of involvement, it gives an emotional sense of meaning, significance or elevation.”
Source: Pagan Portals - Spirituality Without Structure: The Power of Finding Your Own Path
“A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.”
“A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.”
“A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.”
“A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.”
Source: Christ the Healer
“A spiritual life means: It is now or never.”
“A spiritual life storm may come out of nowher, but it can also bring you a sense of clarity and purpose that was missing before.”
“A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a spiritual person has to be divinely practical in his day-to-day activities. Spirituality does not negate the outer life. But we have to know that the outer life does not mean the animal life. The outer life should be the manifestation of the divine life within us.”
“A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.”
“A spiritual narcissist manipulates religious principles to abuse, control, and confine their victims within a bubble of obedience.”
“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”
Source: Dreaming the Dark
“A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because nothing like this was required before in the human experience. And spiritual partnerships can be created in a biological family, they can be created among friends, they can be created in the workplace, they can be created anywhere that two or more individuals are committed to their own spiritual evolution and are striving to relate to each other as equals.”
“A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.”
“A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.”
“A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.”
“A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.”
“A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.”
“A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.”
Source: The Godly Man's Picture
“A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.”
“A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.”
Source: Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
“A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time. Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic. Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.”
“A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.”
“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”
Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism
“A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.”
“A spiritual unfolding begins when you gaze around through the eyes of wonder, with a divine curiosity lighting your eyes. That's when you begin sensing wholeness in your being.”