All Quotes By Tag: Spirituality
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.”
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“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It’s our first language. It’s the rhythm of the womb. It’s your mama’s heartbeat inside your head.”
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“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
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“But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task although the prospect seems to cause my physical nature great distress; for the Lord has not given me strength enough to enable me to wrestle continually both with sickness and with occupations of many kinds without feeling a great physical strain. May He Who has helped me by doing other and more difficult things for me help also in this: in His mercy I put my trust.”
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“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.”
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“Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.”
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“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.”
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“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: ‘Do likewise.’ The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.”
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“Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.”
“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can’t think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, “This isn’t the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don’t imagine this is all there is.”
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“Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?”
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“God defines himself as “I am who I am”, which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”
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“Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!”
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“No more quickly can a person rob you of your joy and peace than when that individual succeeds at making you feel like you’re less than worthy of God as compared to his/her own self. The old adage “You’re on your way to hell, and I’m on my way to heaven” spoken or implied to another, is the most predominantly effective way to make someone feel better about himself; and he doesn’t even have to prove he’s better in this life on earth because now he can just say “Wait ’til I’m looking down at you while you’re in hell!” But don’t be robbed of your joy and peace, individuals or groups of people like that don’t know where God is; He is a whisper-distance away from you, is all.”
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