Spiritual Death Quotes

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46).

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.

I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it's enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.