Spiritual Quotes

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.

We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

Do not desire a long life or an early death

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Death is the reward for living

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

Heaven smiles upon those who share its gifts.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.

No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.