Spiritual Wilderness Quotes

#1. It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past

Sunday Adelaja

#2. In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

Albert Ellis

#3. Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

David Douglas

#4. And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

Wendell Berry

#5. Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Sigurd F. Olson

#6. Spiritual renewal occurs in the wilderness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

Marianne Williamson

#8. The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong
on other worlds.

Charles Krauthammer

#12. To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness.

Radhe Maa

#13. When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

John Strachan

#14. Just as the archetype of the supermom
the woman who can do it all
minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype of the"superkid" minimizes the real needs of children. It makes it all right to treat a young child as if he or she were older.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#15. Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today ... Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

Guy P. Harrison

#16. The wilderness is a place for spiritual rebirth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

Mary Augusta Ward

#18. All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

#19. I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#20. Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.

John Muir

#21. The wilderness is a place of an encounter with the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.

Matthew Henry

#23. My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

#25. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Sigurd F. Olson