Top 100 Quotes About Spirituality
#1. It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
Thomm Quackenbush
#2. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
Michael Yaconelli
#3. Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Ken Wilber
#4. Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.
Bryant McGill
#5. We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.
Stanislav Grof
#6. Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#7. Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.
Rajneesh
#8. You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.
Harlan Coben
#9. It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
J.B. Albano
#10. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
#11. The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#12. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
N. T. Wright
#13. In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara De Angelis
#14. The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.
Jean Houston
#15. Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Bonnie Raitt
#16. I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#17. Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.
Starhawk
#18. Authentic Christian spirituality is a team sport, not an individual endeavor.
Derek Olsen
#20. There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).
Nikki Sixx
#21. I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.
Justin Timberlake
#22. ... spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.
N. T. Wright
#23. Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
Jaron Lanier
#24. Enlightenment is not about building a false sense of spirituality or blindly following religious doctrine, it is about carefully cultivating practices that relieve one of the ego and transcend the illusory perceptions of the world.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#25. Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.
Leonardo Boff
#26. Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.
Richie Havens
#27. For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
Jack Kornfield
#28. You are a true representative of the spirituality of our home, India. Ever since I met you for the first time, the link between us has always grown in strength. I want to say how much I value the meaning of that bond, because it is one of true dedication to the service of God.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#29. Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
William Sloane Coffin
#31. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.
Stefan Emunds
#32. The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general ... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.
Pope Francis
#33. It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction.
Anonymous
#34. I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.
Amy Brenneman
#35. Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#38. I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
Danny Glover
#39. Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.
Ronald Rolheiser
#40. The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#42. A fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.
James Hollis
#43. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.
Abraham J. Twerski
#44. I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.
Sinead O'Connor
#45. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Agache
#46. I say we make our voices heard. For us, for our kids, I say that it is time to figure out a new approach to spirituality, one that honors rationality.
Gudjon Bergmann
#47. Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.
Rajashree Choudhury
#48. I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.
Katy Perry
#49. The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Georg Simmel
#50. Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
Adyashanti
#51. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
Robin Sacredfire
#52. The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not find the emaciated, exhausted spirituality of institutional careerism adequate. I do not find the veneered, cosmetic spirituality of personal charisma adequate.
Eugene H. Peterson
#54. Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.
Dalai Lama
#56. My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.
Deepak Chopra
#57. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.
Donald Miller
#58. Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
#59. Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.
Judith Orloff
#60. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
Damian Marley
#61. Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.
Francis Schaeffer
#62. When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.
Winona LaDuke
#63. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
Dan Brown
#64. When considering the topic of spirituality or religion, I would encourage you to look at Christianity first. It is a testable religion. That is, it is based on evidence. The evidence is philosophical and historical. It can be examined and then we can all make our decision.
Jon Morrison
#65. Spirituality is human equality. Spirituality is human rights. They are one and the same thing," Lord Fire replied "To act as if you are religious or spiritual whilst treating other people unequally or as an inferior means you are nothing but a fraud."
Book 5 - The King of Control
M.C. Rooney
#66. The Puritans made me aware that all theology is also spirituality.
J.I. Packer
#67. I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.
Nikki Sixx
#68. To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
Matthew Fox
#69. Spirituality will only be recognized
by spiritual people.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
Babaji
Petra Hermans
#70. Science and Spirituality are two ends and you have to keep yourself at the middle. Science guys will call it, equilibrium.
Prerak Trivedi
#71. Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.
Debasish Mridha
#72. This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
Ezra Taft Benson
#73. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Carl Sagan
#74. We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.
Matthieu Ricard
#75. When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression 'I am somewhat different from this [the body?]' And when dehadhyas, the belief of 'I am the body, the relative self', goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.
Dada Bhagwan
#76. Spirituality without hate is a lie. If you can't feel anger, you can't feel love. Empathy without disgust isn't truly empathy. When you become more aware, you become more aware of everything. That makes you more sensitive too - sensitive to cry and sensitive to hate.
Robin Sacredfire
#77. The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)
Gay Hendricks
#78. Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.
Bonnie Raitt
#79. People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.
Ben Harper
#80. For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.
Kirkley C. Sands
#81. This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive.
Celeste Teal
#82. Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.
Stanislav Grof
#83. Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
George Santayana
#84. Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.
Iyanla Vanzant
#85. Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.
Jaggi Vasudev
#86. Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.
Stefan Emunds
#87. I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.
Tony Bennett
#88. It takes high level of intentionality to maintain spirituality
Christian Michael
#89. To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.
Yehuda Berg
#90. Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.
James Conlon
#91. Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.
John E. Goldingay
#92. As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.
Anthony De Mello
#93. I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
Paulo Coelho
#94. It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.
Rudolf Steiner
#95. Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.
Mark Driscoll
#96. Spirituality is about being able to see what's wrong with ourselves, accepting the idea that we can change, and then showing a willingness to actually transform ourselves.
Karen Berg
#97. But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
Alan Hirsch
#98. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
#99. It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
Mother Teresa
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