Spiritual Quotes

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a solid foundation for faith.

It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.