#spirit

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one. ↗

— Donna Freitas

#spirituality #faith

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#begins #born #character #comes #day

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232) ↗

— Torkom Saraydarian

#consciousness #creativity #manifestation #solar-angel #spirituality

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#battles #day #fall #gain #good

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. ↗

— Bern Williams

#any #human #human spirit #made #man

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#beauty

At the core, we're all spiritual beings. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#core #spiritual #spiritual beings

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #culture #envied #might #sensitive

Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times ↗

— Laurie Kehler

#spiritual-growth #faith