Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

I have long seen my spirituality as personal, to the degree that I harbor a slight mistrust for anyone who practices similarly. It is as though they are admitting to have on the same cut and color of underwear I do. It may be true, but I don't like t...

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love...

J. C. Ryle

The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual world. One who knows both Matter and Spirit is thus ...

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

Actually we do not have any particular name for our practice; when we practice zazen we just practice it, and whether we find joy in our practice or not, we just do it.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Stephen R. Covey

We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us wi...

Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alig...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Samuel Alexander

I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it's cold in Connecticut - a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet - a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.

Stuart Scott

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just...

Gary Wolf

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremel...

Jimmy Johnson

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Andrew Cohen

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Richard Foster

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

Lynn Collins

In fact, there is nothing we can conceive of that is not energy. It doesn’t just infuse everything; it is everything.

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life

From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything.

Simplify Your Spiritual Life: Spiritual Disciplines for the Overwhelmed

The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to...

John Eldredge

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Alison Gopnik