#ritual

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#creativity #force #labor #lash #may

The human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit—that is our universe. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#human #mind-body-spirit #no-excuses #spiritual-quotes #dreams

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? ↗

— Robert Barclay

#any #art #earthly #first #how

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#being #close #gifts #her #i

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#his #however #make #mean #music

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#energy #evolution #like #love #love is

Only a spiritual being has awareness. ↗

— Chick Corea

#being #only #spiritual

... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. ↗

— Cynthia Eller

#goddess #soul #spirituality #age