Spiritual Formation

Famous quotes containing the words spiritual and/or formation:

“There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)