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“When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.”

People May Spiritual Opportunity Majors Transformation Illness Significant Encounters Surgery Severe Spiritual Transformation

Author:Allan Hamilton

“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.”

“You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.”

May Children Doe Facts Spiritual Dies Spirituality Individual Community Loses Journey Solitude Sight Who You Are Our Family Spiritual Journey

Author:Stuart Wilde

“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.”

“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”

World May Different Age Spiritual Form Spirit Humanity Community Gone Groups Development Tradition Harmony Unity Loyalty Remarkable Historic Fellowship Mystic Different Religions

Author:Haile Selassie

“a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.”

World May Spiritual Force Moral Dangerous Possibility Achievement Intellect Glorious Faculty Mischievous

Author:Frances Harper

“We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.”

Thinking May Spiritual Emotion Strength Emotional Resources Stronger Adversity Knocked Down

Author:Steve Goodier

“I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.”

Ifs Feels May Christian Spiritual Week Duty Hair Habit Quiet Careful Conversion Dry Spiritual Life Grooming Quiet Time Personal Grooming

Book:WOMAN TO WOMAN

Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN

“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”

World Needs May Children Helping Spiritual Mother Ability Wise Son Blessing Activity Intellectual Blessed Motherhood Maturity Broads Association Manhood Scope Threshold Thrice Babyhood

Author:Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.”

Men Want May Said Enough Spiritual Spirit Wish Grace Holy Every Man Revival Qualifications Spiritual Gifts

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.”

World Trying May Action Spiritual Spirit Easy Accepting Easier Everyday Refuse Preserves Spheres Outlook Renounce Outlook On Life

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“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.”

“...visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.”

“Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.”

May Sometimes Spiritual Praying Benefits Affliction Tempted

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.”

May Spiritual One Thing India Spiritual Knowledge

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Christian Spiritual Mother Father Loses Virtue Honor Holy Salvation Charity Fruit Overlooked Holy Mary

Author:Pope Gregory VII

“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.”

Men May Spiritual Chance Effort Temper Adapting Elasticity

Book:The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Source: The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

“It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.”

Ifs World May Self Done Spiritual Suffering Loss This World Accounts Self Inflicted

Book:Companions of My Solitude

Source: Companions of My Solitude

“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.”

Ifs May Reality Spiritual Meditation Risk Awareness Materials Pure Essentials Insight Accidents Makers Freak Defining Spiritual Experience

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.”

May Happens Spiritual Life Is Practice Surrender Opening Spiritual Practice

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.”

“Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.”

People Ifs Believe May Eye Running Spiritual Memories Sleep Forget Darkness Forgiveness Clouds Repentance Sincere Minors Defects Offence

Author:John Climacus

“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

“Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you think that you know more about the spiritual life than your spiritual father, and you stop telling him everything about yourself in confession, then you will immediately be allowed to fall into some sort of delusion, in order that you may be corrected.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“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.”

“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.”

“By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.”

Men May Soul Spiritual Causes Hours Lord Grace Week Comfort Glory Access Intimate Acquire Thrones Converses One Hour Best Of Me Spiritual Knowledge

Book:The works of the rev. John Newton

Source: The works of the rev. John Newton

“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.”

“The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!”

“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.”

Men Wells May Problem Spiritual Solve Parliament Drowning

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.”

May Real Christian Spiritual Grows Sin Poor Rooms Results Views Quality Modern Meetings Absence Repentance Inquiry Initials Inadequate Spiritual Experience Sinfulness Poor Quality

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.”

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“When you feel the need for a spiritual lift, try getting to bed early and get up early to have a quiet time at dawn. Then carry the serene 'in tune' feeling that comes to you into your day, no matter what you may be doing.”

Needs Feels Trying May Matter Feelings Spiritual Bed Quiet No Matter What Get Up Lifts Dawn Tunes Serene Up Early Quiet Time

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.”

Feels Wells May Matter Problem Spiritual Opportunity Difficult Growth Effects Sorry Well Being Spiritual Growth Feel Sorry For You

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.”

People Ifs World May Stills Spiritual Order Dies Belief Natural Animal Views All Things Plant Unity Natural World Eden Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Michael Crichton