Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

Child of the Northern Spring

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state ...

Chinese Art of Tea

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

The Dispossessed

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

Eat, Pray, Love

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

Fight: Are You Willing to Pick a Fight with Evil?

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Fugitive Pieces

Our play is not something separate from our spirituality; it is itself a sign of the presence of God in the world.

God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God

The Peace Panda Says: Without The Heartfelt Prayer Of Love And Compassion...Even The Greatest Of Temples, Mosques, Synagogues and Cathedrals Of Humanity Are Spiritually Dead. What is Humanity Without It's Spirit?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible

You"ll never find your happiness in other people, places, money, possessions. It can only be found within a spiritual awaking deep in your soul!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world... ...I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom... ...and I've decided you're a pillock. [click on the thumbnail, art by ]

Beau Peep: Book Thirteen

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang o...

Sharon Stone

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal ...

George Muller

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Jessye Norman