“To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 204 of 1176
“For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.”
“For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting everything on hold, and I am spending the time with God. It brings everything in focus, and I become eternity-minded.”
“Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.”
“It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.”
“Faith is under the left nipple.”
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
“The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.”
“You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.”
“Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”
“No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.”
“O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you”
“Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.”
“Out of the formless the forms appear.”
“The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.”
“Our illness is often our healing.”
“Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.”
“No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.”
“Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.”
“Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.”