Top 1200 Spiritual Masters Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.

Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.

I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.

We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.

In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

Oh my God, I'd love to meet the other Masters in 'Doctor Who'. They're such fantastic actors I'd be slightly in awe of them.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

Religion is a comprehensive concept. According to our learned people, our scholars, to pave the path for public welfare in worldly life and to provide spiritual uplift is part of religion. I think a yogi can do both things quite easily. And I manage to balance both worldly and spiritual concerns.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46).

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

Scott Skiles was a master tactician - they're all masters, but he is elite. He knew how to manipulate his team from an X's-and-O's standpoint.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

It's only my second Masters, and I definitely jumped into that scene a little faster than I thought I would, to be completely honest.

It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.