Spiritual Quotes

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.