Spiritual Effort Quotes

#1. There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. #Quote by James Joyce

#2. If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good. #Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. So you say faith is not enough for you and you want knowledge, too. But knowledge does not involve spiritual effort; knowledge is obvious. Faith assumes effort. Knowledge is repose and faith is motion. #Quote by Evgenij Vodolazkin

#4. Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives. #Quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth. #Quote by Parker J. Palmer

#6. A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest. #Quote by David A. Bednar

#7. It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#8. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. #Quote by Deepak Chopra

#9. Further, science is a collaborative effort. #Quote by John Bardeen

#10. It has seemed to me that, unless our poetry conforms to some stereotypical notion of Native American history and culture in the past tense or unless it depicts spiritual relationship to the natural world of animals and plants and landscape, it goes unrecognized. We do and we do not write of treaties, battles, and drums. We do and we do not write about eagles, spirits, and canyons. Native poetry may be those things, but it is not only those things. #Quote by Heid E. Erdrich

#11. Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort. #Quote by Napoleon Hill

#12. What is suspicion? It is a tool to spoil one's own Soul. #Quote by Dada Bhagwan

#13. Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there. #Quote by CeCe Winans

#14. Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not. #Quote by Peace Pilgrim

#15. When we are cut off from the fulfillment of our basic needs we seek out substitutes to temporarily ease the longing. Bereft of connection to nature, connection to community, intimacy, meaningful self-expression, ensouled dwellings and built environment, spiritual connection, and the feeling of belonging, lots of us over-consume, overeat, over-shop, and over-accumulate. How much do you need to eat, to compensate for a feeling of not belonging? How much pornography to compensate for a deficit of intimacy? How much money to compensate for a deep sense of insecurity? No amount is enough #Quote by Charles Einstein

#16. There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us. #Quote by Marcel Proust

#17. For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction. #Quote by Pope Francis

#18. Be strong in soul. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides. #Quote by Matt Taibbi

#20. I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too. #Quote by Tinie Tempah

#21. When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects. #Quote by George Sand

#22. I believe in love. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame. #Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. It's funny that we need laws so people can have the freedom to do what they want when we already have the constitution where the 1st amendment allows us to do what we want already. Gay marriage should not be a political matter they are people just like everyone else and have the right to do what they want like everyone else. If NYS/US would take half the effort into the economy or education we wouldn't be as fucked as we are now. #Quote by Kenneth G. Ortiz

#25. I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. #Quote by C. G. Jung

#26. When we cry out to God as a result of our pain and spiritual brokenness He hears us and is compelled to move on our behalf because of His love for us. However, when we complain it is an indictment against His authority as a God who knows His plans for us, and it is an outright contradiction to the faith that we say we have in Him. #Quote by Minister Donald Graham Jr.

#27. Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. #Quote by J. Sidlow Baxter

#28. Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society."46 #Quote by Jonathan Haidt

#29. It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs. #Quote by Jerry Garcia

#30. Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes. #Quote by Dan Millman

#31. Obedience ... allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord. #Quote by Athos M. Amorim

#32. I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being. #Quote by Jim Butcher

#33. You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve. #Quote by Eckhart Tolle

#34. It is fine to take a break from an effortful task every once in a while but your learning experience will be diminished without sustained effort. #Quote by Art Markman

#35. 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. #Quote by William Ames

#36. Despite its prominence now, you don't stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you. #Quote by S. Kelley Harrell

#37. Your body belongs to one realm, but your soul belongs to multiple worlds. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow. #Quote by James Hollis

#39. Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort. #Quote by Donald Johanson

#40. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. #Quote by Rachel Joyce