Spiritual Life Quotes
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![Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198543648i/4837._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
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![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Anthon St. Maarten](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1671302330i/6154621._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.”
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
― Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
![Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1328658976i/73250.jpg)
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
― The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns that Bind You
― The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns that Bind You
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Barbara Brown Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397782733i/71455._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
![Penelope Fitzgerald](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1425224738i/3222._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
― The Bookshop
― The Bookshop
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.
What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature -- even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion -- its indiscriminate character.' (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)...
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people"? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature -- even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion -- its indiscriminate character.' (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)...
What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Shauna Niequist](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1332303087i/425914._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.”
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
― Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
![Amit Ray](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1660031342i/492884._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.”
― Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
― Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
![E'yen A. Gardner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1512997207i/3023571._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.”
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![Germany Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587890777i/8557658._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.”
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![Brenda Ueland](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1239041199i/145456._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?"
So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.
Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.”
― Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
![Elizabeth George](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390504219i/17560._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“So why do we worry? Why do we worry about food and clothing About finances and money? About security and the needs of life? We have Jehovah-Rohi! We have the Lord as our caring Shepherd. When fears regarding the cares of this world set in, we need to confidently lean on God's promise to care for us. Then we can declare to God, "Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You" (Psalm 56:3)”
― Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing
― Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing
![Laura Weakley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1292467415i/3072557._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The Torah is a way ofd life to learn and live, and when studied, a spiritual way to understand life as well as providing instructions on getting closer to Adonai (God). When we treat others kindly, fairly, and lovingly, both in our home, social, and business lives, we are living Torah. The "truth" is the Torah is many things simultaneously.”
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![Norman Vincent Peale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1293010421i/8435._UY200_CR32,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly aware. People sometimes say, "the strangest coincidence happened." Coincidences may seem strange, but they are never a result of caprice. They are orderly laws in the spiritual life of man. They affect and influence our lives profoundly. These so-called imponderables are so important that you should become spiritually sensitized to them. Indeed, the more spiritually minded you become the more acute your contact will be with these behind-the-scenes forces. By being alive to them through insight, instruction, and illumination, you can make your way past errors and mistakes on which, were you less spiritually sensitive, you might often stumble.”
― Stay Alive All Your Life
― Stay Alive All Your Life
![Donna Goddard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613517055i/6901084._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.”
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![C.Michelle Gonzalez](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1350845178i/6560853._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“When there is nothing left to give somone in need, we give them what we do have. We give them Divine Love, faith, and friendship. This is always enough to see anyone through anything. This, my friends, is how we save the world. (pg.99 of A Journey In to Divine Love)”
― A Journey In to Divine Love: Live, Laugh, Love, Meditate
― A Journey In to Divine Love: Live, Laugh, Love, Meditate
“We all have the same root, and are connected...
To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”
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To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”
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“Daily I live with [one] fear--a healthy fear if there is such a thing. [It is] that I will miss something God has for me in this life. And it is mind-expanding to contemplate all that He wants me to have. I don't want to be robbed of even one of God's riches by not taking time to let Him invade my life. By not listening to what He is telling me.”
― From the Heart of a Woman: Basics of Discipleship From A Woman's Viewpoint
― From the Heart of a Woman: Basics of Discipleship From A Woman's Viewpoint
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