Quotes of: Spirituality Keyword

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Satisfaction: it's not something we find, it is something that happens while appreciating what we already have. - Keep your blessings in sight, front & center.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Be of good cheer, carrying a kind of excited anticipation of what your God has in store for you next... this is a powerful kind of faith... it moves mountains.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectation.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

Life is like an echo! when you give something, it comes back to you many, many times.

Achieve the Impossible - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Business Management

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Achieve the Impossible - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Business Management

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries