Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.

Chinese

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

English

But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it's concrete results, not even the 'work on oneself' so widely praised in recent times, let alone through the alternatively invoked phenomena of 'interaction' or 'communication'...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

Astérix: Sniff of coke? Saïd: Uh, no, no. Astérix: You sure? Saïd: Absolutely. Astérix: [psychotically, to the others; starts rapidly practicing with nunchaku] A little coke? A little line of coke? Nobody for coke? That's it for coke? How's your...

La Haine

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are...

The Evolving Self

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed ...

The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith is the gift of God. It's part of the whole salvation package that God gives to us through the work of Christ for us and the work of the ...

Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who doesn't work very much or think very hard, and who spends most of his time meditati...

Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to fo...

Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call human experience and spirituality. The deep lows and pinn...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.

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

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

Challenge: A Daily Meditation Program Based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Does Your Bag Have Holes? 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World