“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 135 of 1176
“In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.”
“A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.”
“A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.”
“People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?”
“Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.”
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”
“The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.”
“The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.”
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
“Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.”
“Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.”
“When God loves you, what can be better than that?”
“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.”
“You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.”
“Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.”
“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”
“You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”