“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.” MenHomeEarthSpiritualLife IsDeathReligionReligiousLevelsProgressChangedEternalRootsBreathsWingsSicknessSentimentsBroadsEaglesConfinedHomesicknessIndestructibleReligious LifeSpiritual ProgressThoughts Of Death Author:Walter Pater
“Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.” SpiritualSpeakAliveBreathsIllSpiritual LifeComes And Goes Author:William Hazlitt
“What is common to all paths that are spiritual is, of course, the Spirit-breath, life energy, that is why all true paths are essentially one path, because there is only one Spirit, one breath, one life, one energy in the universe. It belongs to none of us and all of us. We all share it. Spiritually does not make up otherworldly; it renders us more fully alive.” DoeSpiritualSpiritUniverseCoursesEnergyCommonPathAliveShareBreaths Author:Matthew Fox
“The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.” SpiritualNaturalOur LivesEssentialsBreathsWord Of GodSpiritual LifeBible ReadingNatural Life Author:Jack W. Hayford
“Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.” BodySpiritualPrayerBreathsDrawingSpiritual LifePulse Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons