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“I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.”

World Mean Christian Spiritual Life Is Purpose Christ Seeing Relation Believer Invisible Redemption Meaning Of Life Visible Vague Orthodoxy Standpoint Disbelievers

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.”

“When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.”

Ifs Wells Mean Christian Spiritual Christ Water Practice Virtue Drink Spring Treasure Command Contemplation Orthodox Pitcher Cfs Drink Water Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.”

Men Mean Doe Soul Ends Age Christian Spiritual Law Spirit Found Christ Virtue Teaching Divine Worthy Guides Flesh Prophet Orthodox Manifest Advent Converting Cfs Logos Gals Harbinger

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.”

People Mean Real Sometimes Action Spiritual Life Is Universe Courses Understanding Connected Access Best Things Right Thing Spiritual Life Doing Good Doing The Right Thing

Author:Al Franken

“Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.”

“Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.”

Mean Christian Spiritual Spirit Christ Study Holy Essentials Blessed Believer Holy Spirit Ingredients Spiritual Life Bible Study

Book:Christ's Call to Discipleship

Source: Christ's Call to Discipleship

“The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.”

Mean Littles Persons Spiritual Jesus Given Powerful Greater Losing Scripture Fearful Egocentric Misused Loving Person Greater Love

Author:Richard Rohr

“Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.”

Men Firsts Mean Self Spiritual Spirit Choices Grace Son Independent Dwelling Free Choice Self Loving

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.”

Ifs Needs Should Mean Persons Self Facts Bigs Spiritual Belief Forget Views Worry Seeing Shoes Oneself Point Of View Reaching Divinity Serving Cheer Adjustment Baba

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”

Needs Mind Mean Hands Spiritual Humanity Social Television Materials Entertainment Dependent Teamwork Yearning Togetherness Skillful Motion Pictures Gregarious

Author:Walt Disney

“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.”

Thinking Mean Done Enough Spiritual Spirit Fall Progress Patient Glad Imperfection Spiritual Life New Beginnings Be Patient Disturbed

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.”

Knows Believe Mean Persons Spiritual Believe In God

Author:Jules Shear

“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.”

Ifs World Way Needs Mean Spiritual Spirit House Heaven Accepting Moral Duty Foundation Prepared Affair Settling Cracks Spiritual Life Collapse Be Prepared Civics Inner Life

Book:Heaven and hell

Source: Heaven and hell

“Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.”

Mean Art Ends Spiritual Materials Truth Is Torture Nonsense Application Discovering Barbaric Discovering The Truth

Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.”

Men Mean Country America Spiritual Opportunity Greatness Development Intellectual Species

Author:Edwin Land

“We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet.”

People Years Mean Ends Spiritual Form Language Race Moral Planets Evolution Behavior Connectedness Spiritual Evolution

Author:Jane Goodall

“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.”

Mean Past Spiritual Results Poet Elements Normal Limitation Atmosphere Mixtures Dissolution

Author:Novalis

“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.”

“My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.”

Believe Mean Persons Spiritual I Believe Religious My Own Opinion Teaching Masters Genius Hero Periods Degrees Ultimate Phrases Offering Persuasion Hype Spiritual Masters

Author:Ken Wilber

“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Mean Spiritual Values Church Race Class Struggle Blood Conflict Tasks Folks Dogma Settlement Spiritual Values

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

Men Way Mean Art Use Spiritual Law Class Minutes Art Is Function Aim Chaos Bounds Likes Distinction Sublime Proletariat Bourgeoisie Class Distinction

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.”

Knows Mean Doe Spiritual Attitude Accepting Childhood

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.”

“Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.”

Mean Today Spiritual Buddhism Intellectual West Cult Rip Guru Rama Spiritual Freedom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.”

Want Should Mean Spiritual Religious Enlightenment Legs Stuck Iron Mysticism Handcuffs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.”

People Mean Country Done Spiritual Law Jesus Christ Born Hurt Prayer Simple Decision Millions Five Minutes Changed Jesus Christ Sinner Cult Five Minutes Heresy Born Again Methodology

Author:Paul Washer

“...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.”

“Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.”

Knows Mean Moments Remember Spiritual Technology Yoga Wake Up Present Moment Waking Arriving Amnesia

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.”

Source: English Secularism: A Confession of Belief

“We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.”

Feels Trying Humans Mean Spiritual Goal Human Beings Divine Realistic Divine Love Realistic Goals

Book:Awakening To The Sacred

Source: Awakening To The Sacred

“When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.”

Ifs Mind Mean Enough Moments Happens Spiritual Next Waiting Practice Empty Prepared Live In The Moment Spiritual Practice Empty Mind

Author:George Ogilvie

“Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.”

People Mean Spiritual Prayer Invisible Realms Visible Invites

Author:Tony Evans

“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”

“Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.”

Mean Spiritual Alive Security Comfortable Expecting

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.”

Mean Matter Facts Spiritual Belief Materials Not Sure Humanist Agnostic Describe Myself Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.”

Thinking Believe Mean Doe Spiritual Atheism Spiritual Life

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”

Source: Sculpture inside and out

“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.”

Thinking Mean Spiritual Individual Energy Path Buddhism Elements Simplicity Purity Hinduism Spiritual Energy

Author:Dave Davies

“There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.”

Mean Real Spiritual Belief Differences Confusion Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Lisa Randall

“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”

Wells Heart Mean Facts Able Spiritual Goal Consciousness Our Lives Magic Pure Ancient Objectives Observation Sane Surroundings Evoke Latent Owing Analogue Ancient Egyptian

Author:R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

“Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.”

“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”

“Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.”

Knows Mean I Can Eye Spiritual Fighting Stuff Talking Saws Angry Mad Rings Being Me Yelling Layman Cucumbers Being Mean Yelling And Screaming

Author:Mike Tyson

“I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more I get into it that this was something I was always supposed to do. That allowed me to sit easiser in the life I was living. But that doesn't mean to say you just stroll through it. It takes work and the work is not always about acting. It's sometimes about how you deal with the ups and downs of hope, of expectation.”

Knows Trying Mean Sometimes Spiritual Actors Deals Acting Development Expectations Realising Ups & Downs Spiritual Development

Author:Gerard Butler

“Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.”

World Mean Stills Spiritual Materials Disregard Material World Crocodiles Cashmere

Author:Tom Ford

“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”

“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”

“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”

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