Quotes about spiritual
spiritual jesus heart
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love. John Ortberg
spiritual spiritual-life not-interested
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.
spiritual jesus race
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
spiritual goal transformation
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
spiritual skins world
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed. John O'Donohue
spiritual freedom men
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. John Milton
spiritual choices-made discovery
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey
spiritual problem realizing
All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual. John Diamond
spiritual government democracy
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
spiritual nature men
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented. John Calvin
spiritual strong grace
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).
spiritual humble progress
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
spiritual joy crosses
the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
spiritual regret real
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.
spiritual fruit doe
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
spiritual blessing agency
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
spiritual real world
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything. John B. S. Haldane
spiritual pride truth-is
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. Johann Arndt
spiritual balance culture
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. Johan Huizinga
spiritual judging history
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.
spiritual different divine
There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music. Joan Osborne
spiritual powerful people
If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more.
spiritual reassuring connected
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
spiritual reality objectivity
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of history in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
spiritual atheist science
God is the absolute truth
spiritual known
Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
spiritual powerful prayer
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. Franklin Graham
spiritual expectations delight
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Francois Fenelon
spiritual struggle mean
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. Frank Lloyd Wright
spiritual design misunderstood
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
spiritual adversity christian-inspirational
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. Frank A. Clark
spiritual interesting levels
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
spiritual might proportion
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse