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It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. -- Sai Baba
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. -- Andrew Weil
The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive. -- Mike Bickle
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father. -- Richard J. Foster
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition. -- Sivananda
Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter -- Matthew J. Pallamary
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way. -- Philip Yancey
I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church. -- Timothy Keller
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline. -- Mahavira
I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way. -- Alan Ball
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine. -- Mark Batterson
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
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. -- Henri Nouwen
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness. -- Dallas Willard

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