Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages

The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.