spiritual completion Quotes

Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.

The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.

Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".

In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.

If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.