Spiritual Choices Quotes

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives. ~ Max Anders

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. ~ David Suzuki

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth ... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will
namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. ~ M. Scott Peck

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors. ~ Barbra Streisand

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power. ~ Kevin W. Pearson

The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost. ~ Evelyn Underhill

Its all spirit and its all connected ... Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual. ~ William Commanda

By exercising Spiritual Choices towards Light through the chain of lives you will gain an ultimate goal of a human being - Redemption from reincarnation chain and Spiritual Immortality... ~ Jacklyn A. Lo

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make. ~ Jonas Salk

The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine ... ~ Caroline Myss

Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

You can't choose up sides on a round world. ~ Wayne Dyer

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine. ~ Wayne Dyer

My powers make me strong, but my choices make me stronger. ~ Laura-Louise Slattery

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down. ~ Bob Marley

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking. ~ Marianne Williamson

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice. ~ Hannah Harrington

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with. ~ Deepak Chopra

Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf. ~ Paul David Tripp

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ~ Christian Lous Lange

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. ~ Deepak Chopra

You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself. ~ Christopher Zzenn Loren

The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power. ~ D. Todd Christofferson

Death is the Graduation of the Soul ~ Sylvia Browne

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person. ~ Daryl Hall

I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars. ~ Diane Ackerman

We all say that this is the century of the common man, that he is the lord of the earth, the air and the water, and that on his decision hangs the historical fate of the nations. This proud picture of human grandeur is unfortunately an illusion only and is counterbalanced by a reality which is very different. In this reality man is the slave and victim of the machines that have conquered space and time for him; he is intimidated and endangered by the might of the war technique which is supposed to safeguard his physical existence; his spiritual and moral freedom, though guaranteed within limits in one half of his world, is threatened with chaotic disorientation, and in the other half it is abolished altogether. Finally, to add comedy to tragedy, this lord of the elements, this universal arbiter, hugs to his bosom notions which stamp his dignity as worthless and turn his autonomy into an absurdity. All his achievements and possessions do not make him bigger; on the contrary, they diminish him, as the fate of the factory worker under the rule of a 'just' distribution of goods clearly demonstrates. ~ C.G. Jung

«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?»

«Why not? But in that case it is not necessary to procreate together (excuse my brutality).» ~ Leo Tolstoy

Dance bravely into your own heart, and you will find the love of all. ~ Tehya Sky

I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thing
in heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"
The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet. ~ Todd Burpo

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits. ~ Isaac Asimov

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past. ~ Robert G. Picard

Imprisonment of orogenes was never the only option for ensuring the safety of society ... Lynching was never the only option. The nodes were never the only option. All of these were choices. Different choices have always been possible. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Whether you can see the Buddha or not depends on you, on the state of your being. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I admired my mother in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. We used to fight about that. I am not your justification for existence, I said to her once. ~ Margaret Atwood

Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength. ~ Frederick Lenz

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not ~ Brad Stevens

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it? ~ Tami Hoag

Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

If he's not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It's boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices. ~ Daniel Handler

Fools do not acknowledge God,
the proud reject Him,
the wise embrace Him,
and the righteous worship Him. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The Peace Panda Says ... I truly believe that before my time comes to leave this earth and return home to my spiritual fathers ... I shall see the day that my people of Tibet are free and live in peace and happiness once again! ~ Timothy Pina

I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees. ~ Ted Nugent

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice. ~ Bill Courtney

In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love
a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal
masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject. ~ Edward Hirsch

Sometimes another person's fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need. ~ Tullian Tchividjian

To fight the good fight is one of the bravest and noblest of life's experiences. Not the bloodshed and the battle of man with man, but the grappling with mental and spiritual adversaries that determines the inner caliber of the contestant. It is the quality of the struggle put forth by a man that proclaims to the world what manner of man he is far more than may be by the termination of the battle.

It matters not nearly so much to a man that he succeeds in winning some long-sought prize as it does that he has worked for it honestly and unfalteringly with all the force and energy there is in him. It is in the effort that the soul grows and asserts itself to the fullest extent of its possibilities, and he that has worked will, persevering in the face of all opposition and apparent failure, fairly and squarely endeavoring to perform his part to the utmost extent of his capabilities, may well look back upon his labor regardless of any seeming defeat in its result and say, "I have fought a good fight."

As you throw the weight of your influence on the side of the good, the true and the beautiful, your life will achieve an endless splendor. It will continue in the lives of others, higher, finer, nobler than you can even contemplate. ~ Hugh B. Brown

Working on your deep psychological issues opens the possibility for psychological freedom, making you independent of your past and the scars you carry around with you. These are meaningful choices that go beyond the limited definition of stress management, yet it's this kind of change that transforms someone's life. ~ Deepak Chopra

The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as well as physical ones; visible and invisible, the block took on many forms and could be encountered anywhere, any time. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make. ~ Taraji P. Henson