Spiritual Quotes

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

As individuals we are strong. Together, with God, we are unstoppable.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.