Spiritual Capacity Quotes

#1. Nothing else matters much ... not wealth, nor learning, nor even health ... without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#2. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger

#3. True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.

Thomas Merton

#4. When we are born into God's family through our faith in Jesus, God gives us the capacity or capability to live as his children.

Pedro Okoro

#5. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.

Charles C. Ryrie

#6. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

Edward Young

#7. We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

D. Todd Christofferson

#8. Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

Henry Clausen

#9. At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

John Ortberg

#10. Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.

C. G. Jung

#11. I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to.

Leonard Peltier

#12. No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

#13. At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.

Arthur J. Deikman

#14. As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Grace Meng

#15. Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

David Mamet

#16. The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

#18. Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

David Deida

#19. I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Joe Sakic

#20. Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

Stanislav Grof

#21. 'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

Jamie Cullum

#22. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

#23. The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

Marianne Williamson

#24. Intelligent tax planning calls for changes in approach every few years. It is, therefore, recommended that you must review your investment and tax planning perspective at least every decade and reorient it depending on the facts and circumstances of the situation.

Ram Niwas Lakhotia

#25. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

Roland Merullo

#26. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Munia Khan

#27. We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#28. The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

Adyashanti

#29. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

#30. God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Marquis De Sade

#31. When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace.

Harold Kemp

#32. You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

David Jeremiah

#33. There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Desmond Tutu

#34. HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

Ambrose Bierce

#35. We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

Narendra Modi

#36. Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Robert Gottlieb

#37. Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#38. One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

Charles Bukowski

#39. Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

Oswald Chambers

#40. My favourite conversations are those with the universe, I speak all that I am and the most beautiful response flies a shooting star across the sky, it's proof ~ vibrations of light have the capacity to change our world.

Nikki Rowe

#41. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver