Spiritual Exercises Quotes

#1. When for whatever reason, men and women fail to transcend themselves by means of worship good works and spiritual exercises they are apt to resort to religion's chemical surrogates.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life.

Harold Klemp

#3. Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

Augustus William Hare

#4. He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

John Of The Cross

#5. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#6. Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.

Yves Klein

#7. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

#8. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

Harold Klemp

#9. I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Jake Gyllenhaal

#10. Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

Joyce Meyer

#11. We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us
up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.

Dale Carnegie

#12. Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.

Thomas Merton

#13. The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Ellen Glasgow

#14. If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

Samuel Rutherford

#15. When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

D.T. Suzuki

#16. It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

Neil Cavuto

#17. When our Journey of life is like a Train with Some Stops but Always can reach to a destination which can make ourselves and others happy, then we are on the good way.

Jan Jansen