“I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.” IfsThinkingMindKindHas BeensSoulCountryDoneSpiritualMotherThreeHouseChurchRootsSettingSettingsMississippiCathedralsChapelOdysseyAmerican MusicTrilogiesDeltaMississippi Delta Author:Marty Stuart
“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.” IfsWorldWayNeedsMeanSpiritualSpiritHouseHeavenAcceptingMoralDutyFoundationPreparedAffairSettlingCracksSpiritual LifeCollapseBe PreparedCivicsInner Life Book:Heaven and hell Source: Heaven and hell
“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.” ShouldBelieveArtSpiritualUsedValuesHouseI BelieveDesignFineTasteGardenArchitectInclinationFine ArtsSpiritual Values Author:Luis Barragan
“Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.” IfsYearsMayEarthSpiritualMotherHousePayMistakeClearMonthsAdvantageTwentiesLifetimeKillingFinancialDebtKarmaStealingThis LifeRealmsThirtyCheatingFifteenMortgageThirty YearsMother EarthTaking AdvantageBad KarmaPrevious Life Author:Zhi Gang Sha
“Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.” InspirationTogetherSpiritualHouseSupportBuiltBlessedWorthyFaithfulTemplesOperaPenniesRecreationCathedralsTrinityOpera House Book:The Fabric of Memory Source: The Fabric of Memory
“Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.” PeopleWaySaidHumorAmericaSpiritualHouseNationsChristNaturalReligiousPrayerStepsOughtCallingRepublicanNormalDemocratCongressPositive AtheismYesterdayKneesThings To DoEtcBlessGod BlessDisregardedGod Bless America Author:Jerry Falwell
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.” WorldMindMayWholeRealitySpiritualUniverseHouseSpaceRoomsExistenceTreeMaterialsOneselfBoundariesPensFountainTransformingTotalityAdmittingMaterial ThingsSpiritual BeingsFountain Pens Author:Josef Pieper
“When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.” ChristianSpiritualHouseLeadershipChurchFireSpiritual Gifts Author:Andy Stanley
“Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.” MindCountrySpiritualHouseFieldsProductsOur CountryPresidentialMills Author:Benjamin Harrison
“I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.” KnowsYearsWellsPlaySpiritualHouseCoupleTenSummerMy FamilyTinyBridgesIslandsTennisGood TimesIsolatedHobbiesRunnersTelephonesMaineFerry Author:Alan Lightman
“Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.” MenPersonsBodyHandsSpiritualSpiritHouseHeavenNaturalAttentionCompassionChristianityLandHe ManSonEternalBuiltLet MeEternityLife And DeathUrgesMaterialismGoodsWorldlyLureLove And CompassionCarpenterMiragesNazarene Author:James A. Garfield
“The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House of Belonging exist as spiritual energy and hover over your head-ready, when you are, to be pulled down from Heaven to shelter your Soul on Earth.” ChildrenSoulEarthSpiritualHouseEnergyHeavenReadyMarriedYour SoulOver YouBelongingShelterDivorcedBirthrightBlueprintsSpiritual EnergyWidowed Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'” FirstsHeartHas BeensSpiritualAsksHouseSpeakFunForceChallengesWalksMy FamilySentencesApplicationVersesSomewhere ElsePsalmsBlamelessFamily First Author:Jean Fleming