Spiritual Life

Famous quotes containing the words spiritual life, spiritual and/or life:

    We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.
    John Cheever (1912–1982)

    The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
    Elias Canetti (b. 1905)