Spiritual Crisis Quotes

#1. We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. Gender imbalance is, at its root, a collective spiritual crisis.

William Keepin

#3. I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#4. If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

Billy Graham

#5. Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.

Oswald Chambers

#6. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#7. The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

Thomas Berry

#8. A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.

Mark Doty

#9. I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Jodie Foster

#10. The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the human race and what it means to be a human being.

Grace Lee Boggs

#11. Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

Richard King

#12. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level.

Al Gore

#13. Are you in love with Prince Lucian?' screamed my uncle. 'What were you up to when I arrived? You weren't going to mate right here in the snow, were you?

Rachel Hartman

#14. Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Douglas Coupland

#16. Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

Vida Goldstein

#17. Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

Josh Gad

#18. That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Lisa Jewell

#19. I prioritize my creative pleasure. I enjoy expressing my artistic side and receive the gifts of doing so.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#20. Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.

Atticus Poetry

#21. In light of our current crisis, nothing could be more spiritual than saving our children from humanism, our economy from deprivation, and our liberty from extinction.

Marshall Foster

#22. In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

Satish Kumar

#23. Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom.

S. Kelley Harrell

#24. One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Josh McDermitt

#25. I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.

Jonathan Ott

#26. I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Henri Nouwen

#27. The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

Ronald Reagan

#28. One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

DJ Shadow

#29. He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#30. We are not going through an "economy crisis"; we are going through a "spiritual transition". On a deeper level, the collective conscious of humanity is awakening.

Christopher Dines

#31. The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#32. Learning shamanism isn't just about acquiring techniques in how to do it, but also how to incorporate and deal with the
changes it brings to everyday life.

S. Kelley Harrell

#33. Afghanistan doesn't have the oil of the Khazars, he said, and we're not ready to prostitute our women like the Thais. Unlike the Westerner's, ours is not a spiritual poverty but a material one. When our needs in that area are met, we will not have the dilemma or crisis of Western man.

Zia Haider Rahman

#34. I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

John Burnside

#35. Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.

George Ohsawa

#36. You have the right to flirt with and kiss and proclaim your love for whoever you want to. Which is good, because you do. All the time." Thorne

Marissa Meyer

#37. Our crisis is no longer material; it's existential, it's spiritual. We have so much fucking stuff and so many opportunities that we don't even know what to give a fuck about anymore.

Mark Manson

#38. The world is hungry to hear the truth ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

David O. McKay

#39. The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.

Charles Eisenstein

#40. We are the most open-feeling that we can be, when we can no longer be as we are.

S. Kelley Harrell

#41. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Tom Hollander