Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.
Climbing Jacob''s Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.
Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.
Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.
The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.
Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.
Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.
Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
We are what we pretend to be.
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
I was a spiritual kid.
My family inspires me, because they push me to be the best version of myself that I can be, and spirituality, because it brings more love into your life.
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.
I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.