“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.” KnowsMenImportantSelfCharacterSpiritualFormPurposeCertainNextOpportunityStarsFeltMorningGenerationsSkyLandSummerCreatorPreservesReasonableWildernessFuture GenerationUnbornVanishingSpiritual ExperienceIdahoGreat Spiritual Author:Frank Church
“The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.” PeopleIfsStatesSpiritualSocialGrowthRoomsCommonOpinionProgressIdealsUnionsExperimentsVarietyPreservesSolidaritySocial Progress Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.” WorldHandsAgeSpiritualJesusChurchMiddleLosingEssenceCatholicPreservesAgreementRomeRescuePopeHierarchyMiddle AgesCatholic ChurchSupremacyPredicamentsProtestantismRoman CatholicJesuitRoman Catholic Church Author:John Daniel
“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.” WorldTryingMayActionSpiritualSpiritEasyAcceptingEasierEverydayRefusePreservesSpheresOutlookRenounceOutlook On Life Author:Evelyn Underhill
“It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.” HumansSpiritualFormStuffImpossibleSafeAspectPreservesEsotericEnclosure Author:Jonathan Lethem