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“Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”

Humans Helping Spiritual Religion Spirituality Sports Leadership Common Higher Helping Others Creeds Public Service Common Good Service To Humanity Community Service Great Service Good Service Human Service

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.”

May Mean Doe Spirituality Common Source Awe Spades

Author:Michael Shermer

“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

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Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

Form Spirituality Common Despair Who You Are Authenticity Spiritual Awareness

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

“As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.”

Spirituality Sides Common Talking Both Sides Negotiation Science And Religion Hostage Common Ground

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.”

“We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.”

God Moving Spirituality Common Higher Diversity Brotherhood Unity In Diversity Common Ground Higher Ground

Author:Jim Wallis

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.”

“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.”

Self Spiritual Spirituality Common Virtue Sacrifice Deny Common Sense Philanthropy Self Sacrifice Dissipation Personal Sacrifice

Author:Margaret Deland

“The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.”

“It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?”

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Author:Tony Campolo

“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.”

Art Spirituality Common Wonder One Thing Sense Of Wonder

Author:Andrew Schneider