Shallowing Quotes & Sayings

The prescription for spiritual transformation has often been too individualistically oriented. We are encouraged to engage in spiritual disciplines so that we might have the power to do what we can't do by will power alone. But what happens when people don't have the "will power" to engage spiritual disciples on a consistent basis? Our character is left untended. "In a wild world like ours, your character, left untended, will become a stale room, an obnoxious child, a vacant lot filled with thorns, weeds, broken bottles, raggedy grocery bags, and dog droppings. Your deepest channels will silt in, and you will feel yourself shallowing. You'll become a presence neither you nor others will enjoy, and you and they will spend more and more time and energy trying to be anywhere else."[1] So what are we to do? — J.R. Woodward

You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Literary theories will not make a writer write. — Allen Wier

The intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. — William James

Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it. — Leighton Meester

Love God Today: Seek God for your future and trust Him to bring it about in His timing. — Joyce Meyer

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns. — Janeane Garofalo

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. — Elie Wiesel

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags. — Eric Close

He could say with his body what he couldn't with words, and my lust for him was how I proved my faith in us, something he needed to feel connected to me. — Sylvia Day

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny — Patricia Lynne

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage. — Roger Meddows Taylor

When in doubt, walkout! — Marcelo Santos III

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen. — Ariel Levy

Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all. — Fred Alan Wolf