Top 100 Spiritual Quotes
#1. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
Dainin Katagiri
#2. Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
Bob Marley
#3. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.
Rumi
#4. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
Douglas MacArthur
#5. Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!
Napoleon Hill
#6. Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.
Daniel Marques
#8. When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#9. Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of a concern for "human beings" - regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
Barry Goldwater
#10. How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
Confucius
#11. We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
Jack Kornfield
#12. I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
Sylvester Stallone
#13. All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
William James
#14. Spiritual awareness is that level of reality,
which will take you beyond the mere fact of
living in the physicality of the body and mind
into the realm of your consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#15. Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.
Dan Millman
#16. Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#17. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.
Timothy Ferriss
#18. Tucker: I'm glad it happened. because then I got to know who you really are.
Clara: Oh yeah? Who am I?
Tucker: A really, really spiritual, spoiled California chick.
Avery: Shut up.
Tucker: It's cool though. My girlfriend is an angel.
Cynthia Hand
#19. Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution
Sunday Adelaja
#20. The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.
Steven J. Lawson
#21. Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
Vernon Howard
#22. Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
C.S. Lewis
#23. I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.
Amy Lee
#24. The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
Daniel D. Palmer
#25. I am more spiritual than religious.
Jill Scott
#26. Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically ... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
Win Butler
#27. We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before - a global network of light.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#28. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Budha
#29. I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
Wynton Marsalis
#30. The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia
#31. One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.
Frederick Lenz
#33. The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
David James Duncan
#34. 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.
Marvin Olasky
#35. A spiritual life without discipline is impossible. Discipline is the other side of discipleship. The practice of a spiritual discipline makes us more sensitive to the small, gentle voice of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#36. Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.
Trent Reznor
#38. Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#39. Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.
Don DeLillo
#40. To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.
Thomas A Kempis
#41. Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack Kornfield
#42. I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.
Noah Levine
#43. True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.
Sai Baba
#45. The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
Thomas Merton
#46. The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition ...
Anthony De Mello
#47. Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
Elisabeth Elliot
#48. We encouraged volunteers to think of themselves not as people who run errands to keep a program going but as spiritual directors in the lives of students. Chris Folmsbee
Mark DeVries
#49. Let us think, let us love
Just for a day, just for a night
Let us find peace and happiness
Deep in our heart with spiritual light.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
Billy Graham
#52. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#53. Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Richard Whately
#54. Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.
Jessica Simpson
#55. Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need not go anywhere else. We will get whatever we need from the guru.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#56. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.
Douglas Wilson
#57. Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?
Bill Maher
#58. Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
Saint Ignatius
#59. Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
Ravi Zacharias
#60. Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
Sandra Cisneros
#61. Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
Marianne Williamson
#62. There are all sorts of things embodied in the LEGO brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour ... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
James May
#63. Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
James Redfield
#64. There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity
John H. Groberg
#65. Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
Marianne Williamson
#66. I stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important.
Maria Canals Barrera
#67. The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been wrought by what should be a thing of beauty - religious passion?
Steve Goodier
#68. I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.
Drake
#69. If we really are spiritual beings living a physical existence, then we have incredible power.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#70. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#71. Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
David Douglas
#72. The more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So all the technological advances in the world mean nothing if people feel a spiritual void inside of them.
Stuart Wilde
#73. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.
David Brooks
#74. Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#75. He started the damn thing!" Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. "He killed Diem!
Tim Weiner
#76. The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
Richard Rohr
#77. The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.
Charles F. Haanel
#78. The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
Alvin R. Dyer
#79. One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.
Frederick Buechner
#80. The Hebrews knew that by rest, God meant not only the protection of their boundaries from invading hordes but the emotional, mental, and spiritual confidence they would have knowing that God was irreversibly with them. Rest was inseparable from God's presence. One always accompanies the other.
Will Davis Jr.
#81. 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
#82. Happiness is a measure of one's fill of not physical success, but of mental and spiritual success.
Lionel Suggs
#83. We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
R.D. Laing
#84. I believe the happiness we feel in relation to animals is immensely significant. I believe it is absolutely central to our physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
Linda Bender
#85. Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
J.I. Packer
#86. A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C.S. Lewis
#87. We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.
Beth Moore
#88. Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.
Sandra Cisneros
#89. My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a sunset, for example. If I were using a traditional religious term, I'd say I was connecting with God. For me, I feel that much more in nature than in a city.
Robert Johnson
#90. Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#91. It is very easy to be spiritual inside a religious group but true faith is practiced when you love the ignorant and the atheists, despite their ridicule and offenses, and without the need to convert them to your beliefs.
Robin Sacredfire
#92. Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn't help but feel spiritual in her presence.
Bruce Crown
#93. Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes.
Dan Millman
#94. The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
Abdu'l- Baha
#95. Sometimes spiritual blessings are much more important than most material goals we pursue in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#97. Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.
Marcel Proust
#98. Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.
Norman Fischer
#99. Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective, the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things. This is the condition of vast numbers of Christians today.
A.W. Tozer
#100. It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food joints, there to try to fill with carbohydrates the spiritual and emotional emptiness gnawing inside them.
Ron Loewinsohn
