“Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.” MeanChristianSpiritualSpiritChristStudyHolyEssentialsBlessedBelieverHoly SpiritIngredientsSpiritual LifeBible Study Book:Christ's Call to Discipleship Source: Christ's Call to Discipleship
“Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.” AgeSpiritualForgetVirtueHolyCharityDevotionProportionNever ForgetSpiritual LifeSacramentsEucharistHoly EucharistEucharistic Adoration Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)” MenSpiritualSpiritWaterBornGraceHolySaintFleshKingdomsHoly SpiritSpiritual LifeKingdom Of GodBaptismBorn AgainRegeneration Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.” PeopleNeedsDoeTodaySpiritualFormYoungOrderJusticePoorPracticeStudyIssuesHolyShapesElementsWorshipCommitmentMereProfoundAncientPassionateRecoverySubstanceRitualEngagementSpiritual LifeGodlyRestorationLiturgyHoly LifeChristlikeness Author:Robert E. Webber
“If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.” IfsSpiritualLife IsSpiritNaturalPrayerPrayingHolyHealthyHoly SpiritSpiritual Life Author:Andy Murray
“...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.” MenSpiritualChurchPrayerForgetDependsHolyMen And WomenFruitDepthSincereIntensitySpiritual LifeFormationHoly Man Author:Pope John Paul II
“The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you” ImportantMomentsSpiritualLife IsPleasurePracticeHolySpiritual LifePresence Of GodGod Is With You Author:Brother Lawrence
“Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.” KnowsWayWantFirstsHeartHas BeensEyeSpiritualLife IsSpiritDesireForceGrowthPrayerFireAliveCreationDivinePrayingHolyLettersHoly SpiritSpiritual LifeWithin YouMajestyTransfersSpirit Of God Author:Charles Spurgeon
“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.” MenChildrenFeelingsActionSpiritFatherJesusEmotionFailingEmotionalSonHolySpeechMovedBelovedSensitiveHoly SpiritRejectsSpiritual LifePortraitsScornStirringFickleUnreliableEmotional LifeAbbaAbba Father Author:Brennan Manning
“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.” MenTryingBookSoulUseSpiritualSpiritFallWaitingWiseHolyCrossesIncreaseSeekingGuidanceHoly SpiritSpiritual LifeSwingsFoolishnessGymnasticsFall Of Man Book:The Spiritual Man Source: The Spiritual Man
“A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.” MenInspirationalChristianSpiritualReligiousHumilityHolyAll ThingsHumbleScriptureRelateOrthodoxSpiritual LifeHoly ScripturesHumble Man Author:Mark the Evangelist