Top 1200 Spiritual Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

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.

One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

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.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

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.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

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.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were also men of very high spiritual character. Otherwise no trader would be able to convert a person from one religion to another. It was because they were men of spiritual character.

Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual muscles, but unless we use those spiritual muscles to change our lives, build the church, love our neighbors, and care for the sick and the poor, we...are just posers. Let us not take God's truth for granted.

By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

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.

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

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.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts.

All of my gifts really come from a place of healing. I have homemade essential oils with a diffuser, which I've given to all my kids.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

My wife and I don't believe in exchanging gifts. A happy and healthy life together is our gift to each other.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.

It couldn`t be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.

I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

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.

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.

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.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.

Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.

The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.

For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives.

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.