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- Nov 07, 2020
Spiritual Quotes
On faith, music, and staying spiritual outside of structure.
These quotes explore spirituality outside strict structure—identifying as spiritual without needing a church, hearing spiritual undertones in music, and treating shared problems as ultimately spiritual ones. See our spiritual prayers for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.
- Dignified
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- Nov 07, 2020
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Forty Rules of Love,' I wanted to write a love story. But I wanted a love story with a spiritual dimension. For me, that took me to Rumi. And from Rumi, I went to Shams of Tabriz. That's how the story took shape.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to what everyone thinks, I'm not superstitious - I'm spiritual. And there is a huge difference between the two.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.
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- Nov 07, 2020