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“The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.”

Spiritual Culture Force Christianity Risk Tasks Assuming Compromise Alternatives Theme Fourth Vague Competence Discernment Paradigm Never Ending Specifics Authentic Christianity

Author:Albert M. Wolters

“Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.”

Spiritual Gratitude Understood Tasks Roots Gratefulness Spiritual Work

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.”

Men May Spiritual Grows Process Moral Creatures Tasks Aim Regions Everlasting Diligence Serene

Author:Meister Eckhart

“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

“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.”

Way Children Spiritual Fall Lines Results Behavior Tasks Our Children Foundation Relate Principal Triggers Elementals Behavioral Change

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.”

Ifs Littles Persons Spiritual Bits Behinds Practice Meditation Impossible Particular Evolution Little Bit Tasks Lifetime Dedicated Samadhi Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.”

People Men Real Spiritual Law Nations Building Wall Higher Protect Commitment Tasks Someday Resolve Heritage Birthright Spiritual Strength

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Believe I Can Use Spiritual Form Hate Reading Seeing Awareness Tasks I Hate Guidance Aesthetic Day To Day Petty Wholeheartedly Spiritual Guidance

Author:Richard Meale

“The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.”

Self Whole Spiritual Life Is Lying Purpose Found Steps Security Goes On Creating Tasks Meant To Be Wrestling Spiritual Life Transformed

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.”

Mind Christian Spiritual Purpose Given Natural Leadership Leader Clear Training Tasks Method Missions Adapted Spiritual Gifts Mind Training

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.”

Able Spiritual Desire Accepting Return Higher Glory Tasks Gold Praise Missions Silver Rejoice Whispering Pilgrim Glitter Messengers Spiritual Truth

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

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