Best spiritual & hunger Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.”

Spiritual Spirituality Environment Teaching West Hunger I Realized Spiritual Teaching

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.”

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Book:Five Types of Ethical Theory

Source: Five Types of Ethical Theory

“We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.”

“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

Bigs Spiritual Grows Space Cities Clear Greater Protect Unique Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Settlement Big Cities Uncontrollable

Author:Fritz Todt

“The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no longer able to assuage. So a book which suggests that there is a spiritual significance to the Christian story but that this has been suppressed by the church undoubtedly appeals to those who are anxious to square this circle.”

“We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.”

Should Spiritual Religion Faith Sleep Eating Hunger Righteousness Weary Sleepiness

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”

Made Spiritual Joy Left Growth Behinds Poet Mountain Hunger Tiny Spiritual Growth Wounded Honored Bugs Left Behind Healed

Author:Rumi

“I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.”

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Author:Wes Bentley

“I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.”

People Thinking Kind Two Spiritual Media Tired Hunger Spiritual Hunger

Author:John Fugelsang

“The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

Self Age Spiritual Desire Sin Grief Imagine Ultimate Hunger Old Age Thirst Hunger And Thirst Grief And Death

Book:Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

Source: Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

“Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.”

May Soul Body Spiritual Desire Hunger Burden Lifts Purity Load Entity Fasting Elevation Impediments

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.”

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Author:Thomas Watson

“Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.”

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Author:Michael Lerner

“This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.”

“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.”

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Book:When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.”

Men Matter Home Spiritual Culture Prayer Animal Existence Struggle Weapons Survival Bird Hunger Praying To God Militant God Prayer Weaponry Struggle For Existence

Author:Frank Capra

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