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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. -- William Ellery Channing
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. -- Henri Nouwen
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -- Gautama Buddha
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it -- Henri Nouwen
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. -- Oswald Chambers
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances. -- Oswald Chambers
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. -- Thomas Merton
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. -- Thomas More
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. -- William Hazlitt
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends. -- James Ishmael Ford
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. -- Henri Nouwen
The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression. -- Henri Nouwen
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself. -- Oswald Chambers
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. -- Surya Das
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. -- Swami Vivekananda
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. -- Thomas Aquinas
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit. -- Oswald Chambers
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life. -- Sting
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult. -- Sting
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -- Gautama Buddha
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance. -- Tiger Woods
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great. -- George Muller
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus. -- Eugene H. Peterson
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems. -- Macklemore
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. -- Edmund Husserl
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else. -- Sri Chinmoy
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. -- Josiah Strong
A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know. -- Linus Roache
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life. -- Radhanath Swami
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. -- Eugene H. Peterson
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing. -- Clarence Clemons
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations. -- Sam Harris
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. -- Henri Nouwen
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' -- David Bowie
Christian, non-Christian, we're going to miss the mark. We're going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact - not only on your spiritual life, but those around you. -- Steve Alford
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. -- Brennan Manning
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now. -- Mike Ditka
In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful. -- Joyce Meyer
My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody. -- Al Franken
Life is spiritual. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is spiritual breath. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Spiritual life is contractual. -- Christina Baldwin
Life is a spiritual breath. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Blindness enhanced my spiritual life. -- Joaquin Rodrigo
Life is a spiritual splendid journey. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life without an ideal is spiritual death. -- Emma Goldman
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life. -- George Santayana
The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life. -- Albert Schweitzer
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. -- Swami Vivekananda
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation. -- John Ortberg
A spiritual life means: It is now or never. -- Sri Chinmoy
The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick. -- Wilfrid Sheed
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life. -- Simone Weil
Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life. -- Tom Shadyac
Life is a spiritual entitlement, not a human mundated privilege. -- Wayne Chirisa
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. -- Isaac Watts
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. -- Jack Kornfield
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love. -- bell hooks
Make time daily for the development of your spiritual life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. -- Ambrose Bierce
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life. -- Daniel D. Palmer
Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. -- Steve Maraboli
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. -- Henri Nouwen
Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive. -- Christina Baldwin
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. -- Joseph Campbell
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. -- Fernando Botero
The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits -- Huston Smith
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. -- M. Scott Peck
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. -- Gil Fronsdal
For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. -- Dan Brown
Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks. -- Gordon T. Smith
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. -- Timothy Keller
Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today. -- Ted Andrews
One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life. -- Aurora Levins Morales
As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths. -- Marianne Williamson
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. -- Eben Alexander
I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. -- Lou Holtz
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin. -- Parker J. Palmer
I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life. -- Elaine Pagels
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life. -- John Ortberg
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly. -- Radhanath Swami
Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained. -- Ricky Maye
Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man. -- Billy Joel
In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience. -- Richard J. Foster
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world -- T. S. Eliot
I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!' -- Jenny McCarthy
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital. -- Ted Malloch
A prayerful life, spiritual act of upholding all that you are capable of being. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life. -- Joan D. Chittister
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. -- Thomas Aquinas
The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on. -- Jesse Lee Peterson
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. -- Oswald Chambers
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. -- George Eliot
Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best. -- Radhanath Swami
The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty. -- Oswald Chambers
In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won. -- E. Stanley Jones
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth. -- Peace Pilgrim
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life. -- Harold Klemp
The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism. -- Mary Parker Follett
The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh -- Oswald Chambers
Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus' name! -- T. B. Joshua
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief. -- Mary McCarthy
There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life. -- Carrie Newcomer
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust -- Brennan Manning
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -- Gautama Buddha
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity. -- Radhanath Swami
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. -- Larry Dossey
When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry. -- Deepak Chopra

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