Pastoral Resources

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.