Quotes about Spiritual

Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life.

The ecclesial body was the sacramental reality to which the Eucharist pointed and in which it participated.

Maximus has been called unscriptural, but Scripture is the background and the presupposition for all that he does, to a wholly different degree than in the one-sided scholastic theology or spiritual works of the sixth century. The Confessor's first major work is his set of answers to the questions of his friend Thalassius on passages in the Holy Scriptures. Maximus offers these answers from the fullness both of the exegetical and spiritual tradition and of his own personal meditation.

Or you agree with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin when he said, 'We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.