Top 100 Spirituality Is Quotes
#1. There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
Charles Baudelaire
#3. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.
Zac Poonen
#4. Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#5. I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Akiane Kramarik
#6. There is an invitation beyond the wall of knowledge, which is not to some regressive state before the mind can operate, but a transcendent state that's beyond where the mind can go. That's what spirituality is. It's going where the mind cannot go.
Adyashanti
#7. Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.
Winona LaDuke
#8. God pervades every molecule so how can we think that spirituality is something else, and I see with my boy that complete awareness. Light is everywhere, it's in him, it's in everything.
Jai Uttal
#9. The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#10. I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.
Tony Robbins
#11. God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.
Rajneesh
#12. Religion is for people who don't want to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who've been there.
Sally Brampton
#13. One of the greatest obstacles I see to our fashioning a rational approach to spirituality is to have religious superstition and self-deception masquerade as science.
Sam Harris
#17. But Ignatian spirituality is so capacious that even an introduction will touch upon a broad spectrum of topics: making good choices, finding meaningful work, being a good friend, living simply, wondering about suffering, deepening your prayer, striving to be a better person, and learning to love.
James Martin
#18. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
Michael Yaconelli
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.
Rajneesh
#22. Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Bonnie Raitt
#23. Authentic Christian spirituality is a team sport, not an individual endeavor.
Derek Olsen
#24. ... spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.
N. T. Wright
#25. Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
Jaron Lanier
#26. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.
Stefan Emunds
#27. 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
#28. Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.
Ronald Rolheiser
#30. My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.
Deepak Chopra
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.
Jaggi Vasudev
#37. Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#38. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.
Marilyn Lacey
#39. Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#40. 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
#41. Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.
Judith Orloff
#42. Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.
Stefan Emunds
#43. Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.
Jaggi Vasudev
#44. 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
#45. Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.
Bonnie Raitt
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.
Debasish Mridha
#49. 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."
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M.C. Rooney
#50. Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#51. There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.
Amit Ray
#52. If the heart of Christian spirituality is to increasingly become like our founder, then an authentic comprehension of Jesus becomes critical.
Michael Frost
#53. Spirituality is the empirical discovery of our divine nature by the shedding of who we thought we were - Renovatio Sutra #19
Paul Miller
#54. Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.
Emma Mildon
#55. Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.
Harriet Martineau
#56. Spirituality is not about how far up the mountain we get but how many we take with us.
Earnie Larsen
#57. I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful.
Donald Miller
#58. Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.
Deepak Chopra
#59. Spirituality is NOT the gauge at which we should measure our humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#60. Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
Bryce Harper
#61. Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Meister Eckhart
#62. Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.
David F. Wells
#63. Our spirituality is the ground of our being.
Paul Tillich
#64. Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#66. I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#67. True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.
Richard Rohr
#68. Spirituality is not about being God, but about being your self. God is an imagination. Self is already that - one with all and within all. Self is the essence l, the source and the manifestation too. What else is God?
Rashmit Kalra
#69. Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
Marianne Williamson
#70. I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
Noah Taylor
#71. Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.
John McLaughlin
#73. Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.
Ernest Holmes
#74. Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#75. The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.
Criss Jami
#76. Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.
D. Patrick Miller
#77. If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.
Michael Shermer
#78. Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.
Bob Dylan
#79. Most spiritual people are so obsessed with their own ideas about what spirituality is supposed to be that they completely ignore and neglect the words of the most well-sold spiritual authors in the world, including me, just because we don't match what they think we should be.
Robin Sacredfire
#80. Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
Dean Hamer
#81. Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
David Bowie
#82. Spirituality is based on development of character and philosophy.
Radhanath Swami
#83. The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with imagination. We must practice.
Ratu Bagus
#84. Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.
Marilyn Ferguson
#85. Spirituality is not creating boundaries but creating space for others to come into your life.
Amit Ray
#86. Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.
Sri Chinmoy
#87. True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
Dalai Lama XIV
#88. Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
Deepak Chopra
#89. You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.
David Lynch
#90. To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed that dominate our current culture.
John William Willis-Bund
#91. So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception.
Sadhguru
#92. To seek the fulfillment of ourselves in God - that is, to seek only the blessings and refreshing of God, but not seek God for himself - this type of spirituality is the enemy of the cross of Christ. - ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS
Michael Brown
#93. Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Priyavrat Thareja
#94. If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
Michael J. Fox
#96. Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#97. I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.
Amish Tripathi
#98. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
Mike Yaconelli
#100. Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
Peter Jennings
