Top 1200 Spiritual Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

We have a big heart for Africa and also for just raising awareness about the water crisis.

Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Missouri nonprofits have been a lifeline for many Missourians throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.

I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.

I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

I don't care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.