In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.
I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.
Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.
