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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life without an ideal is spiritual death. -- Emma Goldman
Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. -- Edgar Cayce
Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself. -- Charles de Lint
From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex law. -- David Berkowitz
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. -- Yann Martel
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity. -- Immanuel Kant
Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion! -- Kenneth E. Hagin
And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life. -- Dallin H. Oaks
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to. -- A. B. Simpson
...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46). -- John of Kronstadt
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it's enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing. -- Alex Karpovsky
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. -- Deepak Chopra
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. -- Stanislav Grof
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that. -- Barry Zito
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. -- Georges Rouault
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. -- Stanislav Grof
I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content. -- Ashwin Sanghi
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death. -- Aberjhani
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! -- Ram Dass
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments. -- Serj Tankian
I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. -- Tony Campolo
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous. -- Harvey Fierstein
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. -- A. R. Rahman
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death. -- Heinrich Heine
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord! -- Edgar Cayce
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth. -- Horace Fletcher
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Huxley
Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Henry Huxley

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