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  • Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.

    God   Respect   Spiritual  
    M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books
  • Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

    Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

    Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”
  • Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

  • Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017
  • The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

    Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
  • To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

  • WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

  • Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  • A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”
  • It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  • We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

    Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.44, Revell
  • I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

  • Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 23, 2017
  • There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

    "‘Doctor Strange’ Interview: Tilda Swinton Talks About Her Transformation Into The Ancient One". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. September 28, 2016.
  • We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

    Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.577, Discovery House
  • God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

  • I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.

    Robert E. Webber, Lester Ruth (2013). “Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition”, p.51, Church Publishing, Inc.
  • Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.

  • I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

  • Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  • The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

  • Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

    Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
  • Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jun 03, 2015
  • This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

    Thomas Merton (1968). “Zen and the Birds of Appetite”, p.109, New Directions Publishing
  • A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

    Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

    "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.
  • Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

    Bible   Real   Passion  
    "Knowing Scripture". Book by R. C. Sproul, 1977.
  • Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

    Spiritual   Mean   Space  
  • It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

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