Spiritual Quotes

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

The man filled with good qualities like Truth, Love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see God without searching for Him. He becomes a Jnani (a man of spiritual wisdom).

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.