Spirit Quotes - Page 16

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions.

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

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.

The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.

Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.

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.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.