Spiritual Quotes

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.