#spirituality

It all begins with goodness in the heart. ↗

— Bjorn Street

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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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Addressing the concept of man made additions to the faith - “These additions- standards, practices, and allegiances supposedly created for our spiritual benefit- have had the opposite effect. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

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Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127 ↗

— Ray A.

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Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Peacemaking contains all the elements of the Christian faith. Peacemaking is the result of not only taking the beatitudes seriously, but living them. It involves right relationships. Right relationships with God, right relationships with God’s people and right relationships with God’s creation. It involves love. Proper love of self, love of God and creation, and love of all people—even our enemies. It is not passive, it is active; it is peacemaking not peacekeeping. Above all, it is following the way of Jesus, which was the way of the cross, where his power was 'made perfect in weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9). ↗

— Donald R. Clymer

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

— Terryl L. Givens

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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

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