“We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 196 of 1176
“The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.”
“What cannot be said, will get wept.”
“It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.”
“Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.”
“There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.”
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”
“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.”
“When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.”
“Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne.”
“When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.”
“The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.”
“The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.”
“Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.”
“Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.”
“Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.”
“The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.”
“You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.”
“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”