Spirit Quotes - Page 66

All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.