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I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.