Dan Buettner Quotes

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

The best way for me to put it is that if my spiritual life isn't bigger than my outside life, then I'm out of balance. I make my spiritual life a priority.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

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

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

I pray as much as possible.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.