#iri

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#countless #forward #help #hurricane #hurricane katrina

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. ↗

— Herbert Read

#being #believed #care #could #human

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #spirituality-of-imperfection #life

Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awareness #away #chance #choose #difference

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape. ↗

— Mary Richards

#am #charged #desert #fire #follow

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#confidence #created #crisis #hope #i

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #spiritual-poverty #life

Ego is the world's worst narcotic ↗

— Mekael Shane

#human-nature #humor #spiritual #life