#spiritual

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine. ↗

— Alice Hocker

#self-help #spirituality #motivational

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#god #shedding-religion #spirituality #freedom

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart. ↗

— Gene Edwards A Tale of Three Kings

#spiritual #art

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

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Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. ↗

— Matthew A. Petti

#book-of-revelation #great-pyramid #greek-gods #religion-and-science #religion-philosophy

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it. ↗

— William James

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