“Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.” HeartSoulLightSpiritualSinGraceObjectsWorshipRaisedOperationsFlamesSuitableWorship GodSpiritual Light Book:The Existence and Attributes of God Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.” WayTryingYearsKindSchoolSpiritualSufferingReligiousBoysAchieveHigh SchoolCatholicRaisedLatterCatholicismEmbeddedMartyrdomPenancePrivate School Author:James Balog
“Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.” MenDoeSpiritualBitsMarriageWifeHusbandDown AndRaisesMedicineRaisedVicesBitterVice VersaHusband And WifeWhy Me Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.” NeedsChildrenGovernmentSpiritualMotherFatherMoralEmotionalRaisedEmotional Needs Author:William Bennett
“My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.” SpiritualLife IsSpiritualityInterestingCatholicRaisedSpiritual LifeBeltsInteresting ThingsBaptistsPrivate Things Author:Kelli O'Hara
“Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.” SpiritualSpiritGivenGreaterRaisedCraftsFighterWarriorInternalsMmaSpiritual BeingsWarrior Spirit Author:Troy Polamalu