Spiritual Quotes

...the aim was to mobilize Christians to proclaim the name of Jesus and to pronounce the defeat of the spiritual forces entrenched in the capital.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

The only cure for addiction is spiritual.

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.