“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 183 of 1176
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.”
“Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.”
“He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”
“By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.”
“I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.”
“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.”
“The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.”
“Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.”
“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”
“Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.”
“The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.”
“The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.”
“There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.”
“God could care less whether I can shoot a jump shot.”
“In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.”
“When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.”
“We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry”
“That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.”