Spiritually Growing Universal Quotes & Sayings

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues? — Barack Obama

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom

In love and faith
I just have to believe — Kevin Brooks

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way. — Patrick Rothfuss

So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope. — Charles Dickens

Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it ... having had enough of it in your life, will cause you to surrender and control your thoughts. It will usually lead you through the doors of spiritual journey in your life. Once you go through these doors of enlightenment ... you will never be the same. — Timothy Pina

You cannot relate to your pastor properly until you have thoroughly, in your heart, made him your pastor. — Mark T. Barclay

The limits of science have always been the source of bitter disappointment when people expected something from science that it was not able to provide. Take the following examples: a man without faith seeking to find in science a substitute for his faith on which to build his life; a man unsatisfied by philosophy seeking an all-embracing universal truth in science; a spiritually shallow person growing aware of his own futility in the course of engaging in the endless reflections imposed by science. In every one of these cases, science begins as an object of blind idolatry and ends up as an object of hatred and
contempt. Disenchantment inevitably follows upon these and similar misconceptions. One question remains: What value can science possibly have when its limitations have become so painfully clear? — Karl Jaspers

Your wishes are bad, when you desire that one whom you hate or fear should be in such a condition that you can conquer him. — Augustine Of Hippo

A foolish woman believes that loyalty is automatic. A wise woman knows that it is earned. — Shannon L. Alder

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. — Benjamin Franklin

It's a rental, I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had happened there: adultery, Judaism, modern dance. — Emma Straub