Spiritual Union Quotes

#1. The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Joseph Jacobs

#2. It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

#3. Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#4. We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#5. Follow me." When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in which their more intimate and spiritual union with Himself in glory should be expressed. That chosen word was: "Abide in me." It is to be feared that there

Andrew Murray

#6. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Postpone to the great object of Liberty every smaller motive and passion.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.

Richard F. Lovelace

#9. My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

Vin Diesel

#10. Isn't often the past picks up the phone and calls, affording the opportunity to reconsider personal history in a way that could have saved countless thousands of dollars in therapy had I been inclined to go. I

Ann Patchett

#11. Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

Watchman Nee

#12. Union with [True] Knowledge is 'Principle' [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is 'non principle' [absence of principle].

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Bertrand Russell

#14. So while I still hate to readjust my thinking, still hate to give up old ways of perceiving and conceptualizing, yet at some deeper level I have, to a considerable degree, come to realize that these painful reorganizations are what is known as learning,

Carl R. Rogers

#15. There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

Josiah Strong

#16. Footfalls edged closer, putting her tiger on full alert. She ran faster. Several yards ahead, a man stepped into her path. She skidded to a halt and realized he wasn't a man, but a mutant - half-wolf, half-man - and abomination.

Lia Davis

#17. Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

Kamand Kojouri

#18. When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

Deepak Chopra

#19. Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

Michael Badnarik

#20. Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

Jaggi Vasudev

#21. What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

Benjamin Peirce

#22. To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Alan Watts

#23. The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement.

Christina Engela

#24. All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

V.S. Pritchett

#25. In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

Iyanla Vanzant

#26. I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union ... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

Ibn Arabi

#27. All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Vinoba Bhave

#28. There is no love which does not become help.

Paul Tillich

#29. The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

Deepak Chopra

#30. Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

Mother Teresa

#31. It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. ...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#33. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix

#34. I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art.

Michael Jackson