Spirit Quotes - Page 33

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.

Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.