“Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 69 of 1176
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”
“Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!”
“I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.”
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.”
“Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.”
“My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.”
“Under grace, God is the blesser and you, the blessed. Can you simply take your place?”
“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
“God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.”
“You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.”
“I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.”
“I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
“When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.”
“No one ever dies an atheist.”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.”
“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.”