Quotes about spirit
spiritual passion soul
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Hermann Hesse
spiritual long soul
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke
spiritual twilight feelings
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
spiritual soul visible
The soul...is audible, not visible.
spiritual believe thinking
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think Henri Poincare
spiritual women law
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man. Henrik Ibsen
spiritual ideas unity
The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
spirit rebellion mark
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
spiritual discipline doe
It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines. Henri Nouwen
spiritual believe skills
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
spiritual children space
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.
spiritual addresses way
One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.
spiritual jesus heart
The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life.
spiritual space discipline
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
spiritual heart community
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
spiritual doe answers
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
spiritual discipline intimacy
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
spiritual jesus inspired
Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.
spiritual daughter mean
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
spiritual self life-is
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
spiritual believe useless
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.
spiritual struggle journey
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.
spiritual successful way
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
spiritual want offers
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.
spiritual pain real
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
spiritual prayer christ
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
spiritual joy darkness
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.
spiritual mean filled-up
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
spiritual maturity knowing
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
spiritual men intellectual
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action. Henry Ford
spiritual home years
The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge. Heinrich Heine
spiritual men suffering
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. Henry Ward Beecher
spiritual journey might
Things are always different from what they might be. Henry James