Spiritual Quotes

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

All attack is a call for help.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

What you are looking for is what you are looking with.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.