Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.
Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.
Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
Always follow your bliss; bliss is heavenly. Life will be divinely beautiful and grow spiritually. Life will be beautiful, peaceful, blissful, and divine.
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.
I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.