Spiritual Guide Quotes

#1. When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#2. Diane is my spiritual guide. She is a Duke- and Harvard-educated oyster fisherman in Cape Cod. Now there's something you don't hear every day. Like Jackie and Doug, she does not seek the spotlight.

Megyn Kelly

#3. God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

Rahki

#4. President Obama's friend and counselor Ta-Nehisi Coates, from his perch atop the bestseller lists and at the pinnacle of power in America, denounces the American Dream, in terms that echo Obama's previous spiritual guide, Pastor Wright in Chicago, as a genocidal weight of whiteness.

George Gilder

#5. Enemies and friends act like spiritual coaches. They round out the rough spots on Soul's unfoldment. The Mahanta (inner spiritual guide) teaches through others. So pay careful attention when sparks fly, because some important things in you - perhaps courage or forgiveness - needs some polish.

Harold Klemp

#6. The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

Idries Shah

#7. When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.

Surya Das

#8. Christ is my standard, the Bible is my guide, and His Blood is my healer. On the narrow way I press on looking forward to the eternal glory on the other side.

Anya VonderLuft

#9. 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

#10. religion does not offer enlightenment; it offers absolute answers and a simplistic guide to life that reassures followers of relief in a spiritual world to come.

Arthur F. Garcia Jr.

#11. Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants 'liberation' (moksha).

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

Shauna Niequist

#13. [Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it ... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

Thomas Moore

#14. A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door.

Nikki Rowe

#15. We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#16. Fasting is meant to take you, temporarily, out of the realm of the physical and focus your attention heavenward; as one Jewish guide to fasting puts it, 'at the heart of this practice is a desire to shift our attention away from our immediate needs and to focus on more spiritual concerns.

Lauren F. Winner

#17. Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

Zoroaster

#18. It was His gentle voice who called
and sent His angel pain to guide me,
through the long 'n dusty corridors,
and empty hallways of my soul.

David W. Earle

#19. Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.

Debra Moffitt

#20. O Lord, I commit my plans into thy mighty hands, guide me along straight path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Practice being still amidst the chaos. This and only this will guide you where you need to be, to a place of infinite wisdom and inner peace.

Patience W. Smith

#22. Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.

Sizzla

#23. You need to trust
To surrender
To ask for guidance
Go within for the answers
They're within you
You have the answers
All you need do is ask

Karen Hackel

#24. When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, 'Pray.'
Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Ellen J. Barrier

#25. From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

#26. Eternal God, bless those who have specific responsibilities for the spiritual well-being of children. Guide them as they work, teach, and encourage, that their influence may stretch from this world to the next. Amen.

Stephen Poxon

#27. Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Jaggi Vasudev

#28. Lord our time on earth is in your hands.
Lord determine and guide our steps.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."
Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.

Kristine McGuire

#30. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Philip Yancey

#31. Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#32. I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Jonas Salk

#33. The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

Gudjon Bergmann

#34. Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to 'Truth' but we, out of our own vested interests, wish to continue living in our own self-created illusions because it suits our purpose or fulfils our needs.

Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

#35. Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

Haile Selassie

#36. By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

Charles C. Ryrie

#37. May God bless and guide us on path of light in Jesus Name.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

Charles C. Ryrie