S Quotes
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“Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.”
“Spiritual development and growth generate the anointing, integrity contains it so that it doesn't destroy the bearer while accountability sustains it in a long run.”
“Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.”
“Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.”
“Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.”
“Spiritual direction is a way of companioning people as they seek to look closely, through the eyes of their hearts, at the guidance and transforming work of God in their lives. It's a practice that began in the early years of Christianity when people followed the desert mothers and fathers out to the wilderness to ask them how to know God. Over the years, spiritual direction has appeared in many faith traditions. It was kept alive in the Christian faith mainly through the Roman Catholic Church, but today the Protestant church is rediscovering it. People throughout the Christian church, including those of an evangelical orientation, are experiencing again the gifts that God gives to his people through the loving listening and the gentle guidance of spiritual directors. This gift is usually offered in the context of individual spiritual direction, but the potential for spiritual direction in small groups is a growing and promising expression of the ministry of spiritual companionship.”
Source: Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction
“Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.”
“Spiritual direction, therefore, explicitly acknowledges what is often only implicit in other forms of pastoral care: that the directees' desire for more life, more integration, more union with God is grounded in the indwelling Spirit and that God is an active Other in the relationship. The working alliance is thus grounded in mystery and explicitly acknowledges that the way, too, is mystery.”
Source: The Practice of Spiritual Direction
“Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.”
Source: Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
“Spiritual does not equate to 'goodness'. The sooner that is understood, the better. It’s much more complex than that.”
“Spiritual dreams are meant to comfort us during difficult times, show us how much we have grown, and encourage us to go to a higher level.”
Source: Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
“Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.”
“Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.”
“Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.”
“Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.”
“Spiritual energy is the one kind that never runs out.”
“Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.”
“Spiritual enlightenment includes the realization that there is no ‘there’ to go to, and no one to go.”
“Spiritual entrepreneurship is a collective community working together to expand love.”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO
“Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.”
“Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.”
“Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be.”
“SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.”
“Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.”
“Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.”
“Spiritual experiences happen at soul level and they're very positive and powerful. When similar experiences happen at mind level, they are called mental sickness because they're very negative and harmful.”
“Spiritual exploration ploughs the same ground but is less concerned with ‘fixing’ or improving things than with rediscovering what is whole and has not been absent, just obscured.”
Source: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion. But the father of the prodigal son is not concerned about himself. His long-suffering life has emptied him of his desires to keep in control of things. Can I give without wanting anything in return, love without putting any conditions on my love?”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“Spiritual foolishness is the willful acceptance of those situations, circumstances, people and strongholds that contradict the Word of God.”
Source: Freeze, Seek,Surrender: Book 4 War Aint Pretty:: Women's Bible Study Guide: A JOURNEY TO TRANSFORMATION THROUGH study, Journaling, prayer, and fasting
“Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.”
“Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.”
“Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.”
Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
“Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.”
Source: The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation
“Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.”
“Spiritual formation without the circumcision of the heart is simply behaviour modification and no real transformation really happens.”
“Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.”
Source: Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship Direction
“Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.”
“Spiritual gerçek, bir grup görünmeyen varlığa ve birtakım garip uygulamalara ait değildir. Spiritüel gerçek her şeydir. Spiritüel gerçeğinizi yaşam biçiminizden ayırmak ikiyüzlülüktür. İkiyüzlülük içinde yaşayanlar o dualite içinde yaşarlar ve dualite içinde yaşayanlar o dualiteyi enkarnasyonlar boyunca tekrarlar ve sonunda hayatı tekrar tekrar yaşayan sıkıcı bir deneyim olarak görürler.”
“Spiritual giants are only willing, available and thirsty spiritual babies who paid the price for the prize, who waged a war for the victims to become victors, just like the courageous Davids that kill the big Goliaths.”
Source: Strategic Spiritual Warfare
“Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.”
Source: Gift and Giver
“Spiritual gifts are not walls to protect the indwelling furnace of sin.”
“Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.”
“Spiritual growth begins when we feel satisfied with our life.”
“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.”
“Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.”
Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”
“Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.”
Source: A Woman's Worth