Spirit Quotes - Page 72

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand.

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

Spiritual questions deserve spiritual answers from God.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

Error has never approached my spirit.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.

I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.