Top 100 A Spiritual Quotes
#1. Life is a spiritual journey, so enjoy the expression of spirit in every little beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#2. I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
Huston Smith
#3. There's a difference between mastering something physical and working with an animal. There's a spiritual component to working with a horse. You're dealing with the spirit of a live animal that thinks and makes decisions.
Buck Brannaman
#4. Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#5. There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.
Robert A. Johnson
#6. Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
Kris Carr
#7. We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen R. Covey
#8. All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.
Joseph Mitchell
#9. We're all connected somehow either on a spiritual level or emotional level
Shellie Palmer
#10. Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
Watchman Nee
#11. The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
S. Kelley Harrell
#12. Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#13. I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
Sharon Salzberg
#15. There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.
Carrie Newcomer
#16. He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
Johannes Tauler
#17. I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#18. The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Wassily Kandinsky
#19. Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.
Rachel Caine
#20. If the only thing we have when we leave a time of Bible study is more head knowledge and a spiritual to-do list for the week, we've missed the point.
Trevin Wax
#21. Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.
Sri Chinmoy
#22. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
Julia Cameron
#23. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Matthew Arnold
#24. And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants.
Rachel Weisz
#25. When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
Cory Booker
#26. Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.
Camille Paglia
#27. I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
Kathy Mattea
#28. Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs admit that the phenomenon of having them simply arrive feels magical.
Paul Zollo
#29. I never got to meet Michael Jackson, and he's gone - so to be on stage with Prince was like if Michael ... you know what I'm saying? And Prince, he's just such a warmhearted guy. He's so humble. He's such a spiritual man. I like his style.
Sharon Jones
#30. If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
Anne Lamott
#31. Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
John Maeda
#32. That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account ... given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually in heaven before he was given a natural body.
J. Reuben Clark
#33. I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
Jerry Weintraub
#34. We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#35. If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.
Frederick Lenz
#36. On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.
Jonathan Haidt
#37. Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.
Charles Colson
#38. The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Stella Adler
#39. I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.
Robert E. Webber
#41. The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
Saint-John Perse
#42. Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
#43. People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#44. I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.
Laura Bell Bundy
#45. I see everything through a spiritual lens.
Katy Perry
#46. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#47. I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.
Billy Graham
#48. Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
Kiki Smith
#49. When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.
Woody Harrelson
#50. A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
Mark The Evangelist
#51. A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit ... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.
Watchman Nee
#52. Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
Henri Nouwen
#53. The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.
Ezra Taft Benson
#54. Any sin is a spiritual poison for a person created to live in love.
Sunday Adelaja
#55. You are a spiritual being with human body. Well-being, love, and kindness are your guiding principles.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Fear comes in many different forms. It is especially lethal when it comes in a spiritual form.
Art Hochberg
#57. Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#58. Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Philip Neri
#59. A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.
Starhawk
#60. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
#61. The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.
Deepak Chopra
#62. Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.
Russell Means
#63. Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.
Beth Moore
#65. If you want to know if someone is a "spiritual being" ask yourself, "Is he or she breathing?" If the answer is yes, then you know that you are in the presence of a spiritual being.
Sharon Gannon
#66. It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
Gustavo Dudamel
#67. If you find a person (atheist, agnostic, religious or otherwise) that lives with their heart open and gives and receives unconditionally, you'll find a person who is living a spiritual life. You'll also find a person who has learned everything there is to learn about life on earth.
Stuart Perrin
#68. Even though the situation may look dire, God is our light in the darkness. We are in a spiritual war, but failure is not an option. We are victors. We are conquerors. We always win.
Angela Lane Woods
#69. Religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.
M.C. Beaton
#70. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Vince Lombardi
#71. People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
Mike Tyson
#72. We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.
Henry B. Eyring
#73. All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
Bill Vaughan
#74. When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.
Baba Hari Dass
#75. My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
Asif Kapadia
#76. It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.
Alexander Chee
#77. Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of America is something of a religious country, but not necessarily a spiritual country.
Charles Lloyd
#78. I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
Billy Joel
#79. Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo.
Bryant McGill
#80. I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.
Brandon Bays
#81. As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece.
John Fante
#84. The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
Dan Brown
#85. What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#86. Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.
Anodea Judith
#87. To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
Kate Arrington
#88. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
Lynn Collins
#89. I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thing
in heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"
The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.
Todd Burpo
#90. Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
Diane Dreher
#91. Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#92. In love, you can sometimes feel a melting and merging with the other person, and the two becomes one. The physical bodies are still separate, but something beyond the bodies creates a oneness. It opens a spiritual dimension.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#93. If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
Henry Reed
#95. I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#96. I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami
#97. As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve.
Felix Wantang
#98. I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.
Shailene Woodley
#99. Whether you're checked in or checked out, you're always on a spiritual journey.
Alanis Morissette
#100. The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.
Mata Amritanandamayi
