Spirit Quotes - Page 74

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.