Stephen Baldwin Quotes

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.