“The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 247 of 1176
“That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.”
“One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.”
“Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.”
“When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible”
“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”
“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”
“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.”
“Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine.”
“In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.”
“You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial.”
“By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.”
“The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.”
“In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.”
“Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.”
“I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.”
“Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.”
“Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.”
“When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”