Top 79 Loving Spiritual Quotes
#1. I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But ... I'm a loving, spiritual person.
Ellen DeGeneres
#2. Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.
Wayne Dyer
#3. The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
Richard Rohr
#5. Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child's definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.
David W. Earle
#6. ...nowadays, everyone seemed to be dreaming of absolutely everything. Traveling and loving and having a fantastic career and a happy family, all while being thin, beautiful, popular, and in touch with their spiritual side.
Katarina Bivald
#7. Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.
Donald Wuerl
#8. When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Rumi
#9. The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real. They feel real but they're not. As spiritual beings living a brief human existence, this is not who we are. We are beautiful, radiant, joyful and loving.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#10. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
Julia Cameron
#11. Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.
Gautama Buddha
#12. Your value and self-worth is not found in your former lover, not in the loving words of they spoke, not in the gentle ways that they held you, not in the sweetness of their kiss; but found in the love that you have for yourself.
Forrest Curran
#13. Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit ...
Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.
Nikki Rowe
#14. When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.
Alan W. Watts
#15. The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.
Radhanath Swami
#16. Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
Rajneesh
#17. I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Louie Schwartzberg
#18. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.
Maximus The Confessor
#19. Christians have no business playing around with ideas of the devil as a fun-loving, beer-swigging guy who just wants you to have a good time.
Pedro Okoro
#20. The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#21. Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#22. The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
M. Scott Peck
#23. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.
M. Russell Ballard
#24. If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.
Miya Yamanouchi
#26. This gift of 'loving' the other person is a reflection of the spiritual 'love' given by the Father and shown through His Son Jesus Christ.
George Calleja
#27. If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.
John Templeton
#28. A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.
David A. Bednar
#29. God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.
Susan Vreeland
#30. What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
Anthony De Mello
#32. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.
M. Scott Peck
#33. The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
Philip Yancey
#35. It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.
Thubten Yeshe
#36. In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#37. The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Dalai Lama
#38. The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#39. We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.
Katherine Marie Dyckman
#40. We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.
George Carlin
#41. The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.
Alan Cohen
#42. Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.
Carlos P. Romulo
#43. Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it.
Munia Khan
#44. Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.
Mary Baker Eddy
#45. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.
George MacDonald
#47. Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#48. Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do
Joyce Meyer
#49. Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being - the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.
Shakti Gawain
#50. Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be.
Thomas Hora
#51. The Story Is Always There
Sometimes you don't need to talk to someone to see how they feel. You don't need to ask about their story. Some people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time to read.
Delma Pryce
#52. We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.
Timothy D. Lane
#53. If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
S. Kelley Harrell
#54. ...about a spiritual path, seeing the validity in all paths, and knowing that religion can help or hamper the path. The teachings in every religion are valuable. It is humanity that has bogged down in dogma and rules. Loving and practicing the teachings that ring true is the key.
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
#55. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.
James MacDonald
#56. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.
Allan Lokos
#57. The dreams of a pure life,
The dreams of a loving wife,
Find pleasure in a Godly life.
The Wife S.R.
#58. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?
J.D. Greear
#60. If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
Shannon L. Alder
#61. Within the overall context of loving his wife, a husband's first and primary role is to be the spiritual head and covering and teacher in the home. Through his words, lifestyle, and personal behavior the husband should teach the Word, the will, and
Myles Munroe
#62. If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.
If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.
Donald L. Hicks
#63. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Aberjhani
#64. To understand the love of being loving, radically changes us. People, in and of themselves, cannot give us happiness. Activities, in and of themselves, cannot give us happiness. One becomes a loving presence, a centre for Divine grace.
Donna Goddard
#66. If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#67. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.
Howard W. Hunter
#69. I believe that my father had some kind of direct experience of the spiritual nature of reality, maybe a vision, that he tried to convey perhaps unconsciously in his work- that there is a different, more loving and transcendent reality beyond this world of imagined conflicts.
Lisa Henson
#70. Loving oneself
Is the most primal
Of all survival mechanisms
Karen Hackel
#71. 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.
Lester Levenson
#72. Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#73. Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.
S. Kelley Harrell
#74. namaste - it means, roughly translated, "I honor the Deity within you." that is precisely what we do when we open our hearts to another; we honor the fact that he or she, like us, is a child or the same loving Father, worthy of all respect and careful attention.
Virginia H. Pearce
#75. When people are kind, rational, generous and loving..
Be grateful, appreciate it and make the most of it at that time..
Because it is not necessarily the normal/real way of things at all..
Reason, generosity, kindness & love are rare resources in this world..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#76. If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.
Donald L. Hicks
#77. What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.
Ralph Martin
#78. Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.
Munia Khan
#79. Assistance will come unto you through the Holy Ghost as spiritual guidance. It is a power, beyond your own capability, that a loving Heavenly Father wants you to use consistently for your peace and happiness.
Richard G. Scott
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