Spiritual Quotes
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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
Vinoba Bhave
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There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
Adolf Loos
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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
Meher Baba
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All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
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At the end of ancient civilization ontic anxiety is predominant, at the end of the Middle Ages moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period spiritual anxiety.
Paul Tillich
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The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Allan Bloom
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Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.
Charles Hodge
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We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
Camille Paglia
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You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
Andra Day
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I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
Baldur von Schirach
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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
J. I. Packer
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Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.
Stone Gossard
Pearl Jam
