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 When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.  The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. - Bible They understand but little who understand only what can be explained. Some things have to be believed to be seen. Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul. Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all. Believe in something larger than yourself. Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. Faith is believing before receiving. Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway. Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. All things are possible to him who believes. - Bible Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God. All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. God gave burdens, also shoulders. There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish. Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own. God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds. Remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it. There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world. Millions of angels are at God's command. The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells within you? - Bible God does not ask your ability, or your inability. He asks only your availability. When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere. God dwells wherever man lets Him in. God is love. - Bible God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself. God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way. The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God. I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll. I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend. God comes at last when we think he is farthest off. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer. Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet. Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is, you've got to be kidding! Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic? A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking." When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity. Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives. The soul is awakened through service. Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine. I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right. The soul ... is audible, not visible. Soul appears when we make room for it. 
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