“Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.” PeopleWritingTryingChristianSpiritualSongLevelsFansDeeperContemporaryWriting SongsChristian MusicContemporary Christian Author:Ryan Tedder
“The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.” IfsLooksSpiritualMoralOne ThingSourceStriveDeeperConvincedAcquireMental StrengthHaving StrengthPhysical Strength Book:Bulletin Source: Bulletin
“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.” PeopleMenYearsLittlesLongArtMadeImportantFeelingsAbleLastsFacesSpiritualMeditationPaintingPeriodsSeriesPaintIllnessDeeperObsessedColourLast YearFormatMotifsImportant WorkSchemas Author:Alexej von Jawlensky
“The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.” MenStatesWisdomTodaySpiritualSpiritPoliticsMoralStruggleEconomyDemocracyDeeperSocialismManifestationLiberalismEnterpriseIndividualismDictatorshipSuperficialCollectivismFree EnterpriseConcessions Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” IfsNeedsWritingKindLongSpiritualTurnsPrayerSilenceStudyTeacherTvsPeriodsSolitudeDeeperTurn-onSpiritual TeachersJournaling Author:Richard Rohr
“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.” MenSpiritualFallJesusSinGraceBloodHigherBlessingAuthorityDepthDeeperBackgroundsHeightDependentCollapseGrace Of GodPublicityCleansingStaggeringPinnacleBlood Of Jesus Author:Alan Redpath
“God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.” TryingFirstsKindSpiritualFindingsEatingTablesDeeperJoyousSaying NoDietingJust SayingBanquetsResentful Book:Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self Source: Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self
“Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.” SpiritualGrowsLevelsTeachingDeeperWiserGreat SpiritualSpiritual Teaching Author:Marianne Williamson
“I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.” PeopleWorldProblemGovernmentWould BeSpiritualFeltTermLeaderIssuesProgramDeeperWorld Leader Author:Woody Allen
“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.” WorldWayBelieveAgeTogetherSpiritualFormHumanityOrderCultureSpiritualityI BelieveUnderstandingResponsibilityMoralAchieveGrewEssentialsConnectionsOriginalsVariousDeeperGenuineSubstanceWorking TogetherMutualNew AgeRenewalKinshipSense Of ResponsibilityDeeper Understanding Author:Vaclav Havel
“I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.” MenChildrenPersonsStillsSometimesSpiritualCertainFoundChristChurchConditionsMetsTenAdultsDeeperFiftySpiritual LifeTwelveSixtySpiritual Experience Author:Charles Spurgeon
“I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out.” TryingBelieveLooksMadeStillsWarSpiritualMovingSpiritualityI BelieveGrowsPlanetsConflictConnectionsDeeperContinuingRenaissanceGrassroots Author:James Redfield
“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.” MenHumansStatesCharacterFeelingsHandsSpiritualNaturalVisionSubjectsDangerFieldsPersonalityDevelopmentElementsDestructionIndependentTrainAffairDeeperAccomplishDullExtinctionHarmoniousFree ManCompletionDrillsCharacter DevelopmentIndependent ThoughtHuman PersonalityNatural Feelings Author:Rudolf Rocker
“Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.” ProblemSchoolTogetherSpiritualGrowsStageParticularProductsCircumstancesPhilosophicalDeeperMutualAffinityDevelopmentalDormitory Author:Jill Ker Conway
“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.” KnowsMenWayGivingWellsHardAgeChristianSpiritualWishEasyAcceptingModernHe ManLessonsCreaturesMachinesMethodDeeperNervousVainSpiritual LifeKnowing GodImpatienceHasteShortcutsHard TruthsPain In Life Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer