Spiritual Life Quotes

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus’ name!

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.