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“Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.”
Source: Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal
“Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.”
“Spiritual life is contractual.”
“Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.”
“Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.”
“Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.”
“Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.”
“Spiritual life is not mystic; when you decide to work with God, you have stepped to mystery, God can intervene at any time, God can come down even when you are not ready. From the minute you know and understand that God is interested in your marriage, job, business, health, the minute you know that God is interested in what you are doing for Him, the job will take a new turn, your business will take a new course, your life will have a new direction.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Spiritual life means learning to become one-pointed, to focus all our energy in one direction, towards Him. Through continually repeating His name we alter the grooves of our mental conditioning, the grooves which like those on a record play the same tune over and over again, repeat the same patterns which bind us in our mental habits. The dhikr gradually replaces these old grooves with the single groove of His name. The automatic thinking process is redirected towards Him. Like a computer we are reprogrammed for God. It is said that what you think, you become. If we continually think of Allâh we become one with Allâh. But the effect of the dhikr is both more subtle and more powerful than solely an act of mental focusing. One of the secrets of a dhikr (or mantra) is that it is a sacred word which conveys the essence of that which it names. This (“In is “the mystery of the identity of God and His Name” the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God”). In our common everyday language there is not this identity. The word “chair” does not contain the essence of a chair. It merely signifies a chair. But the sacred language of a dhikr is different; the vibrations of the word resonate with that which it names, linking the two together. Thus it is able to directly connect the individual with that which it names. (p. 121)”
Source: The Bond with the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover & the Beloved
“Spiritual life means learning to become one-pointed, to focus all our energy in one direction, towards Him. Through continually repeating His name we alter the grooves of our mental conditioning, the grooves which like those on a record play the same tune over and over again, repeat the same patterns which bind us in our mental habits. The dhikr gradually replaces these old grooves with the single groove of His name. The automatic thinking process is redirected towards Him. Like a computer we are reprogrammed for God. It is said that what you think, you become. If we continually think of Allâh we become one with Allâh. But the effect of the dhikr is both more subtle and more powerful than solely an act of mental focusing. One of the secrets of a dhikr (or mantra) is that it is a sacred word which conveys the essence of that which it names. This is the mystery of the identity of God and His Name („in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God”). In our common everyday language there is not this identity. The word “chair” does not contain the essence of a chair. It merely signifies a chair. But the sacred language of a dhikr is different; the vibrations of the word resonate with that which it names, linking the two together. Thus it is able to directly connect the individual with that which it names. (p. 121)”
Source: The Bond with the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover & the Beloved
“Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.”
“Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be.”
“Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.”
“Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.”
“Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.”
“Spiritual love will not resemble worldly love since it desires first and foremost the spiritual perfection of the beloved. Spiritual love wants the beloved to live free—which is to say, free from sin, since virtue is the only true liberty. This is the opposite of the liberty the modern world would have us pursue, which amounts to the freedom to live in whatever sin we feel like. This is a loveless pursuit of liberty, liberty in the context of spiritual blindness.”
Source: This Dark Age - 2024 Edition - Volume 2: The Confrontation Between Man and Evil
“Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.”
“Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.”
“Spiritual matters are difficult to explain
because you must live with them in order
to fully understand them.”
Source: Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography
“Spiritual matters should be private.”
“Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.”
Source: To Live Is Christ
“Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.”
Source: A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters
“Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.”
“Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior”
“Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.”
Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
“Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.”
“Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.”
“Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.”
Source: Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord
“Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.”
Source: Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord
“Spiritual maturity is when waiting no longer feels like punishment—it feels like preparation.”
“Spiritual maturity results from practicing truth in everyday life, not from knowing truth in one's mind.”
Source: Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: How to Help Others Change
“Spiritual maturity testifies of one’s level of patience”
“Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.”
“Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.”
Source: The Way to Peace
“Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don't have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.”
“Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.”
“Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.”
“Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go.”
“Spiritual Paralytic Is What The Practice Of Sin Has Brought To The Body Of Christ As We Crucify Jesus, Again And Again, Making A Practice Of Sin All In The Name Of Grace And Love.”
Source: Walking In The Newness Of Christ
“Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.”
Source: Soul Stories
“Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.”
“Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.”
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.”
“Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.”
Source: Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions
“Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.”
“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
“Spiritual poverty, even more than material poverty, exposes weakness in a person’s character.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.”