#spiritual

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#faith #spirituality #faith

God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth. ↗

— Michael Barbarulo: Author God's Healing Hands: Allow God To Reshape Your Soul

#inspirational #motivational #spiritual-development #faith

Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what is sometimes called organized religion. They have learned to forgive themselves. They do not expect their institutions to stand in for God, and they are happy to use inherited maps for some of life's journeys. They do not need to walk off every cliff all by themselves. Yet they too can harbor the sense that there is more to life that they are being shown. Where is the secret hidden? Who has the key to the treasure box of More? ↗

— Barbara Brown Taylor

#more #religious #spiritual #faith

The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. ↗

— Joseph Fletcher

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All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations. ↗

— Valery Bryusov

#religion #spirituality #faith

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#childbirth #christianity #expectation #family-planning #happiness

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #family #god #idolatry #love

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. ↗

— Rob Bell

#questions #spirituality #faith

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#karmic #meditation #personal-transformation #soul #spiritual

Compassion is the religion of the heart. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#personal-transformation #religion #self-help #spiritual #spirituality