Spirituality Quotes
Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.
By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: "In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
Manpower without unity is not a strength. Unless it is harmonized and properly united, it becomes a spiritual power.
Every soul that has perception is, though in different times and in different organs of sense and motion, still the same indivisible person.
The churches of America are citadels of our faith in individual freedom and human dignity. This faith is the living source of all our spiritual strength. And this strength is our matchless armor in our world-wide struggle against the forces of godless tyranny and oppression.
In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.
We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.
Whenever racial discrimination exists it is a tragic expression of man's spiritual degeneracy and moral bankruptcy. Therefore, it must be removed not merely because it is diplomatically expedient, but because it is morally compelling.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.
The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.
The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions...No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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