Top 1200 Spiritual Hunger Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

What I've taken from my spiritual study is the wisdom of living a balanced life. My spiritual path has also helped me to be more emotionally centered, to be more understanding of those that disagree with me, and to learn how to let go of some of my power issues so that I can be more effective and bring a sense of humility to my work - while still having the self-confidence to be effective.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.

I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness. Believing on Christ and following Him delivers from both. In His fellowship the believer is delivered from the power of darkness, from the power of sin and from ignorance as to spiritual things.

I don't think that there's a burning hunger in the wrestling world to see me necessarily wrestle anybody.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control.

Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets.

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.

Life is not about making money. It is about enhancing the quality of life for every single being so that they go from physical satisfaction to astral satisfaction to mental satisfaction to growing spiritual satisfaction, up and up and up, all the way. It's all spiritual.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

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.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with us an attained state of consciousness; and while we are here, we are expanding that consciousness. From some perspectives, it may seem that we are making giant strides, but from the greater overview, our quantity of spiritual knowledge is smaller than Ptolemy's knowledge of astronomy!

It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.

If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game of volleyball.

There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher" - she didn't mean at Columbia, she meant in the spiritual sense - I decided my affliction was the universe telling me that it was time to stop writing fiction and become the spiritual guru I was clearly meant to be.

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost