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  • In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control. -- Richard J. Foster
  • In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control. -- Richard J. Foster
  • Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment. -- Surya Das
  • Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. -- Keanu Reeves
  • To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease. -- Henri Nouwen
  • Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine. -- John Eldredge
  • It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is. -- Eugene H. Peterson
  • If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. -- Gary W. Moon
  • I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ. -- Robert E. Webber
  • Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. -- Richard Foster
  • Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. -- Richard J. Foster
  • When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door. -- Tom Hollander
  • It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction. -- Max Heindel
  • For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house. -- Kim Young-ha
  • You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose. -- Dannion Brinkley
  • Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. -- Richard Foster
  • Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. -- Richard J. Foster
  • Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation. -- Richard G. Scott
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