All Quotes By Tag: Spiritual

“The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God’s creative genius is endless.”

“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.”

“Who you are is not determined by what you wear, the money in your wallet, nor how you look. Who you are is simply determined by who or what you follow. If you follow money you will only seek after such, giving your all for it. If you seek after what they call, ‘fun,’ your life will be aimed towards finding a way to fame, or a new way to party. If you follow the Lord Jesus your life will be given to Him, and the hopes and dreams you have will be in pleasing Him!! Everyone follows someone or something. Who will it be? Choose wisely- you are important!!”

“It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.”

“You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.”

“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?”

“I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery. ”

“I don’t profess any religion; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]”

“Love spiritually, not strategically.”

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

“I’m not saying that it is necessary, expected or even desirable that we live in that experience of warm-hearted, big-smile love every second of every minute of every day. Life flows, and it’s natural to have a variety of feelings and experiences. However, it supports our own and others’ growth and happiness to be able to feel and act from a place of love at will and when the situation calls for it.”

“Everything is connected – words, thoughts, emotions, our energy level…. Because of this interconnectedness, we can influence how we feel through our words. The more we begin to observe our words, the more we can use them to better our lives.”

“We think thoughts are ours. We think we own them. But we never think to ask, where do they come from? Who creates them?”

“My only expectation is for you to respect my humanization”