You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another. . . And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.
All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!
Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.
A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.
Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them. . . Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.