Spirituality Quotes - Page 18

Only when your old mental patterns have been ditched will you be able to put your ideas into action.

The first step to reclaim your power to control your own life is to take responsibility for your life completely.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the Word, You have Lost it.

Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.

We are the guardians of our beings.

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

To take good care of ourselves, we must go back and take care of the wounded child inside of us. You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to embrace him or her terderly, like a big brother or a big sister. You have to talk to him, talk to her. And you can write a letter to the Little child in you, of two or three pages, to that you recognize his or her presence, and will do everything you can to heal his or her wounds.

We feel like acting like a Christian, following the steps of Christ, is much more important than following a doctrine.

Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.

One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~

I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!

The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts.

Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It's not that extroverts can't communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it's that introverted seekers need to know and see that it's possible to lead the Christian life as themselves. It's imperative for them to understand that becoming a Christian is not tantamount with becoming an extrovert.

If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Never forget the tribulations that we have endured. We are all one energy, and we are all part of God. You are one family now. Do not allow yourselves to find reasons to separate yourselves. Share everything; help each other in raising your children. Love each other, and love life.

Excellence is the result of loving more than others think is necessary, dreaming more than others think is practical, risking more than others think is safe, and doing more than others think is possible. Every day is a golden opportunity to learn, practice gratitude, and positively impact the world around you. Do not ask for instant fulfillment in your life, but for patience to accept your current frustrations. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom to make better choices. Do not ask for more before saying, “THANK YOU” for everything you have already received.

The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

I will keep on loving you until eternity comes to make me love you more

The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.

Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear sons. We have to show our appreciation to our society for making that possible. A time will come when you will meet other Kamerunians who share the same vision for this land. I am advising you to make them partners in our common goals when that time comes. We shouldn’t shy away from playing a formidable role in financing that political force that shall emerge. We must use our influence to ensure that it succeeds.

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

May living your truth set you free!

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.

Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

I am the master of my own destiny, so I choose greatness and nothing less.

If you like who you are then losing yourself isn’t a choice! But if you don’t like yourself, get lost.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes.

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

If you want to make dough, do a bun dance.

The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.

Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being

God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!

Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well.

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

This is why questions must be asked and answered truthfully and why we must train our emotions to coincide with what is actually true. Doubt is a necessary part of faith, otherwise it is a blind faith and a deaf faith that deserves to be a mute faith. For, when Helen Keller, who was deaf, blind and had to learn to speak can come closer to the truth than persons with full sensory capacity, perhaps there is something wrong with our religious and spiritual traditions.

Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar...take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.

Who can know the mind of God?

Don´t judge people, who preach the Gospel differently than you do.

There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me.

Love gives you eyes.