Top 1200 Spiritual Blessings Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

There is something that happens when you are grateful: You continue to keep receiving blessings. So I will always be grateful.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

If we open our hearts to give love we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.

Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

I believe in my mother's blessings. And as far as Sai Baba is concerned, I believe there is only one God.

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.