Quotes of: Spiritual-life Keyword

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with wha...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The Torah is a way ofd life to learn and live, and when studied, a spiritual way to understand life as well as providing instructions on getting closer to A...

Laura Weakley

Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the night, who always announces the dawn and awakens in eac...

Elizabeth LeSeur

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which it...

Henry James Sr.

But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without b...

Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing

Maybe, life is a kind of waking dream. Maybe, it's a double-dream with a false awakening. Maybe, the dream only becomes lucid and truly luminous given the fuller perspective of life after one's own wake. Maybe, the pictures never stop. Doesn't the ex...

For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel

The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect—that is,...

Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; ...

Rabindranath Tagore

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cann...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To effectively combat the devil, you need to pray.

Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

If you do not pray, you easily become a prey!

Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

Crossing Myself: A Story of Spiritual Rebirth

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

An Emerging Spirituality

You are not alone. You are not being singled out by the fates to suffer.

How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness