Top 1200 Spiritual Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think that the spiritual father live negligently, and that the Holy Spirit can't live in him, you will suffer mightily for such a thought, and the Lord will humble you, and you will straightway fall into delusion.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

One of the best gifts my wife could ever give me was my two little boys.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

I actually hate receiving gifts, it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

My favorite scripture is, 'Your gifts make room for you.' It's something I tell people all the time.

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Our spirits...require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.

The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.

As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.