“You can't really make people be any different than what they are.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 262 of 1176
“Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.”
“I read the Bible every day.”
“I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.”
“The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
“Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.”
“Let me go, let me go.”
“Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.”
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.”
“But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.”
“The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.”
“Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.”
“When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”
“We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.”
“And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is.”
“A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”
“You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.”
“Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.”