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Spiritual Quotes — page 182 of 1176
“The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.”
“If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.”
“The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.”
“The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer”
“Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.”
“The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.”
“I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.”
“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”
“Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.”
“Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"”
“Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.”
“Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.”
“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”
“What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!”
“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.”
“The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.”
“Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”