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“If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.”

Ifs Mean Christian Form Spirit Moral Teaching Example Higher Capacity Flesh Theology Contemplation Orthodox Mystical Standpoint Materialistic Logos Moral Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.”

Light Spirit Capacity Bigger Shining Abundance

Author:Lynn Robinson

“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.”

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.”

Dream Spirit Creativity Creation Capacity Wake Up Infinite Cosmos Waking Our Dreams Waking Life

Author:Jackie Gleason

“In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.”

Needs Spirit Order Capacity Innovation Genuine Courageous Daring Discipleship Pioneering

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.”

Spirit Given Capacity Urges

Author:Richard G. Scott

“The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.”

People Humans Book Stories Body Reality Spirit Inspire Capacity Human Spirit Physical Body Love And Courage Story People

Author:Caity Lotz

“For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.”

Believe Feelings Spirit I Believe Teach Capacity Analysis Poetry Is Synthesis

Author:May Sarton

“We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.”

Should Humans Spirit Energy Growth Forget Animal Essentials Capacity Collectives Never Forget Our Future Future Growth

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.”

Spirit Certain Share Healthy Capacity Devotion Characteristics Endurance Possessed Psychics Inquiring Sensing

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.”

Ifs Body Might Spirit Belief Christ Accepting Divine Holy Capacity Transformation Redemption Holy Spirit Mystical Dna Fullness Baptism Body Of Christ

Author:Thomas Keating

“We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit: in the capacity to reflect that which, for lack of a more precise word, we choose to call “the divine,” i.e. that which is true and beautiful beyond all manifestation, that which remains timeless (and therefore unchangeable) within all changes.”

Men Believe Beautiful Spirit Lying Values Divine Creatures Capacity Remains Mere Intellect Manifestation Timeless Precise Unchangeable

Book:The Lightning and the Sun

Source: The Lightning and the Sun