Spiritual Death Quotes

“People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who believes in it. The invisible spiritual bond which gives it validity, no longer exists, and so the whole age is at once comic and tragic--tragic because it is perishing, comic because it goes on.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“Shedding an independent, individualistic sense of self, is an apt place to start when remaking oneself. The task of divesting my egoistic coat-of-arms requires that I first understand how I came into being, ascertain how a person forges a baseline personality, and discover how I can modify my template for self-construal. I need to surrender an arrogant sense of self-importance, acknowledge towering ignorance, and learn how to live humbly. I hope to parlay personal humiliation and self-hatred into a transformative act by invoking a spiritual death of my egotistical being that results in a resurrection of a more astute and kinder human being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“To find the great Love, we must, one way or another, die the great death.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“We are spiritual beings having a human experience,” writes Inspirational author Madyson Taylor. “As children, most of us know this, but other human beings who have forgotten what they really are and who cannot help us to know ourselves train us to forget. As a result, we are led to believe that magic is not real, that our invisible playmates do not really exist, and that we are limited beings with only one earthly life to live. There is enormous pressure to conform to this concept of ourselves and so we lose touch with our full potential, forgetting that we are beings of light ... It is through our connection to this light that we know things beyond what the visible world can tell us, and we see things beyond what the physical world reveals.”
― Gail Graham, Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?

“Without the air of prayer, we die spiritually.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“The 'life of the party' is subject to living the shortest life, and the longest death.”
― T.F. Hodge

“The 'life of the party' is subject to enjoying the shortest life, and suffering the longest death the world has to offer.”
― T.F. Hodge

“The 'life of the party' is subject to enjoying the shortest life, and suffering the longest death the world has to offer... voluntarily.”
― T.F. Hodge

“Physical pain is nothing compare to permanent spiritual death.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita