Spiritual Quotes

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

Most people view health only in the physical sense, but I view it also in the mental, spiritual, and emotional sense.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force that defines us and leads us. For sure. No question for me.