Spiritual Quotes

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces.

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.