Quotes about Spiritual

He knows when we are spiritually ready to receive the blessing to our profit and His glory.

In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.

ANNATS  (A'NNATS)   n.s. without singular.[annates, Lat.]1. First fruits; because the rate of first fruits paid of spiritual livings, is after one year's profit.Cowell.2. Masses said in the Romish church for the space of a year, or for any other time, either for the soul of a person deceased, or for the benefit of a person living.Ayliffe'sParergon.

St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.

Only Christ can give us food that satisfies our spiritual hunger and gives everlasting

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse

Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).

In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.

Opus Dei's authority extends only to the personal spiritual formation of its members.

The two-tiered spirituality created an artificial separation between the clergy and the laity—and thus between the Church and the world.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

A foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.