“Worship is a response to greatness. A man does not become a worshipper merely by saying, "Now I shall become a worshipper." That is impossible. That cannot be done. A man becomes a worshipper when he sees something great that calls forth his admiration or his worship. That is the only way worshippers are made. Worship answers to greatness.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 110 of 1176
“Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear.”
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.”
“The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.”
“Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.”
“God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.”
“It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.”
“I'm not suggesting that I have all the answers or that I have experienced everything someone else has. I'm a firm believer that everyone's life/spiritual journey is unique and personal, and I'm in no place to tell you what you have or have not experienced. However, I CAN tell you what I have experienced and learned, and I hope it is of use to someone out there.”
“On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.”
“My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.”
“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”
“Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”
“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”
“One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.”
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
“Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.”
“God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.”