Spiritual Quotes

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Would you rather be right or free?

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.