Spiritual Quotes
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.
By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.
Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
