Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Votes: 6
Martin Luther King, Jr.The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. Votes: 5
Shakti GawainEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Votes: 4
Carl JungAll I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. Votes: 4
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Votes: 4
Meister EckhartBeauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. Votes: 3
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSpiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer. Votes: 3
Francis of AssisiIf you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Votes: 3
Peace PilgrimNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. Votes: 2
E. O. WilsonJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Votes: 2
BuddhaIt is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. Votes: 2
Oswald ChambersOne person's cult is another person's spiritual organization. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhen there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellChristians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannSelf-struggle is spiritual. It is only by grace, the divine-self manifest. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaNo separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one. Votes: 0
Terry Tempest WilliamsPrayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul. Votes: 0
James Dillet FreemanGive people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor. Votes: 0
Charles A. MurrayThe spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world. Votes: 0
Francis SchaefferAll sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted. Votes: 0
Janet Erskine StuartHe had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerWe can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten. Votes: 0
Terence McKennaThe spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonNothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks. Votes: 0
Gordon T. SmithAs you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonSo I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellForgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind Votes: 0
Muhaya Haji MohamadThe nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty. Votes: 0
Oswald ChambersA spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful. Votes: 0
Harbhajan Singh YogiThe worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. Votes: 0
Robert ThurmanPut in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life. Votes: 0
Philip Toshio SudoI think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonThe spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
Bhaktisvarupa Damodar SwamiThere is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.
James Melvin WashingtonAs in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
Katherine Mansfieldit is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.
Mary Martha SherwoodWe go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
Aiden Wilson TozerParents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
Mata AmritanandamayiSpiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.
Aiden Wilson TozerWhether youâre checked in or checked out, youâre always on a spiritual journey.
Alanis MorissetteArt thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWhenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
Friedrich NietzscheIn the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
Howard G. HendricksThe red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
Charles Alexander EastmanSamadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellSpiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
Tullian TchividjianPhysics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.
Christine O'DonnellWhen everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.
Derwin L. GrayThere are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
Fulton J. SheenThe time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.
James Van PraaghBut your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.
Robert ReynoldsSpiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThere is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas CarlyleLove is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.
Wilferd PetersonThere's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.
Carrie NewcomerHumility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIt is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement...
Haile SelassieThe Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Howard G. HendricksWest is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
Mehmet Murat ildanThe best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Nancy PearceyThe golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.
Oswald ChambersThe true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
Alvin R. DyerSpiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!
Choa Kok SuiMusic might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
George CrumbCulture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
Johan HuizingaThe spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
Marianne WilliamsonSpiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.
Peace PilgrimIntuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
Rudolf SteinerSpiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
E. Stanley JonesThe kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Harriet LernerTell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.
Leonard RavenhillI did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.
Malcolm D. LeeThe state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
Mary Parker FollettThose who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Philip NeriThe more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
Radhanath SwamiLanguage is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
Saul BellowImprovisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
Sonny RollinsBusiness is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person
Tony RobbinsTo discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
William BarrettDo not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
Charles SpurgeonYou are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.
Dannion BrinkleyI kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
Danny BoylePoverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
H. L. MenckenThere's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.
Harold KlempIt is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Paramahansa YoganandaCanada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
Robertson DaviesFor every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
Rudolf SteinerSpiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
Stephen CoveyThe inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
Yevgeny ZamyatinAt its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
Aaron HoopesArt is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
Calvin SeerveldMindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
David RichoIn the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThose who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
Eugene O'NeillI don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."
Hiroshi SugimotoTea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.
James Norwood PrattForgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.
Jodi PicoultIf we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.
Joyce MeyerWe are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Nelly MazloumAll spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
Richard LouvWhere you place your focus, there will be your Heart and that will be the Spiritual Heart.
Roger Delano HinkinsYou are not given the light by anyonenot even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.
Swami SatchidanandaIt was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
Virginia WoolfMan is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
Abdu'l-BaháOne of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Dorothy DaySpend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellPhysical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellTo create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.
Jaggi VasudevI have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.
Jerrie CobbWe can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
Marianne WilliamsonA true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.
Mata AmritanandamayiA global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
Matthew FoxDispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
Maximus the ConfessorReal hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
Neal A. MaxwellThere's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
Pema ChodronThe suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.
Ram DassEducation must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.
Sai BabaIf you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.
Sri ChinmoyThe idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
Amit GoswamiIt takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
Cornel WestThe church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.
David BoschYou can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellSpiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.
Gary Zukav... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
Iris MurdochFaith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
Ram DassThe sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.
Sam KeenBegin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus' name!
T. B. JoshuaConfidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
Oswald ChambersSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
Albert SchweitzerA sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
C. S. LewisThe several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxAll nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Edwin Powell HubbleThe more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.
Gabrielle BernsteinThe genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.
Isaac Bashevis SingerFaith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.
John WesleyPhotography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.
Kevin RussoIf you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.
Val KilmerA disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
Aiden Wilson TozerThe natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know
Aiden Wilson TozerOur enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.
Amy CarmichaelHalf the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Ayya KhemaThe ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
Brennan ManningRejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. SwindollHalf the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Henry Ward BeecherApologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
Julia CameronMany men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
Lord ActonRunning is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.
Lorraine MollerThe fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
Mahatma GandhiThe choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.
Max AndersFreedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
Neil T AndersonOurs is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.
Ravi ZachariasAll of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.
T. D. JakesThe peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence it is unshakeable
Thomas MertonComplacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Aiden Wilson TozerThe highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
Algernon Charles SwinburneWhen body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.
Baba Hari DassIt is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
Charlie MusselwhiteWithout spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.
Dieter F. UchtdorfI definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
Evangeline LillyThe spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
Henri NouwenCreativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.
Jason MrazDemocracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
John Deweyreligion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.
M.C. BeatonThe issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
Marianne WilliamsonIf we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
William Jennings BryanA private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
Oswald ChambersSpiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
Bhakti Charu SwamiIn the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.
Bhaktisvarupa Damodar SwamiThe study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.
Francis CornfordThe fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
Franz KafkaThe closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
Jack KerouacSkillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.
John FriendWe shouldn't come up with a pseudo-spiritual excuse for turning away from the pain of the world.
Marianne WilliamsonFighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
Mike TysonKeep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.
Norman Vincent PealeI now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.
Sally QuinnThe source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarFor me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.
Sue Monk KiddJoy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
William Ralph IngeScientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
Benjamin DisraeliIf anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Bernard of ClairvauxWhen Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.
Beth MooreThe dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
Brennan ManningAs we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.
Derek A. CuthbertThe Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
Dorothy L. SayersAll our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.
John DiamondMusic speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.
John McLaughlinFaith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.
Kenneth CopelandThe physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
Kenneth MyersNo spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
Michel de MontaigneGod is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.
RahkiThe less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm
Sunday AdelajaYou can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
Tullian TchividjianA spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaIf you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
Bhakti Charu SwamiSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
Dallas WillardIf you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhat you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
Hermann HesseYet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack KornfieldBe passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.
John FriendAlways firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
Julianne MalveauxPrayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
Mark BattersonJust as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
Mata AmritanandamayiYou can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
Matthieu RicardFor as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.
Mitch AlbomThe act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
Mo YanA life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.
Peace PilgrimIt is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.
Samuel MarsdenSpiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
Van MorrisonNo friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
Hugh BlackSpiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
Ignazio SiloneWhere we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
Jack KornfieldLearn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.
Ma JayaI stay healthy by dealing with things! Seriously, emotional and spiritual health is most important.
Maria Canals BarreraThe goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
Marianne WilliamsonSome form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
Paramahansa YoganandaIf I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.
Paul Farmera spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
Pope Benedict XVIChristianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
R.J. RushdoonyYour spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.
Rick WarrenI've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
Benjamin SpockWhose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
Bob MarleyI ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.
Brandon BaysIt is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
Dalai LamaIndia is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.
Diana L. EckThere is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.
Jaggi VasudevHe who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.
Jean-Pierre CamusBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
John Henry NewmanIf you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.
Ram DassIn ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
Tom TurnerVirtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.
Wayne DyerWhen I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure. Votes: 1 Tara Brach
Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences. Votes: 2 Drew Pinsky
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus. Votes: 3 Eugene H. Peterson
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. Votes: 2 Adyashanti
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Votes: 2 Billy Graham
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life. Votes: 3 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. Votes: 2 Jasper Johns
Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith. Votes: 2 Chris Matthews
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. Votes: 4 Galileo Galilei
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. Votes: 3 Henry A. Wallace
Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality. Votes: 1 John Ortberg
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. Votes: 6 Eckhart Tolle
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. Votes: 7 Mariel Hemingway
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today. Votes: 3 Steve Vai
There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice. Votes: 3 Shannon L. Alder
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around. Votes: 3 Oprah Winfrey
In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future. Votes: 1 Shari Arison
May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him. Votes: 5 Billy Graham
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. Votes: 1 Michael Medved
"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'" Votes: 3 Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. Votes: 1 Michael Medved
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Votes: 2 Sai Baba
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection. Votes: 7 Bruce Feiler
Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment. Votes: 3 Neal A. Maxwell
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Votes: 5 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Votes: 1 Chuck Palahniuk
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. Votes: 1 Jane Gardam
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down. Votes: 3 Frederick Lenz
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. Votes: 3 Michael Medved
In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control. Votes: 3 Richard Foster
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer. Votes: 4 Rick Warren
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. Votes: 3 Andrew Weil
Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams. Votes: 1 James Redfield
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering. Votes: 1 Mary Karr
I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy. Votes: 3 Miranda Kerr
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world Votes: 4 Walter Isaacson
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me. Votes: 4 Robert Frost
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. Votes: 3 Leo Buscaglia
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Votes: 6 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Votes: 4 Edvard Munch
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. Votes: 2 Ziggy Marley
We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant. Votes: 2 Henry B. Eyring
Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. Votes: 3 Dallas Willard
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Votes: 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. Votes: 7 Salvatore Quasimodo
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. Votes: 1 Henri Nouwen
God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose. Votes: 6 J. Oswald Sanders
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. Votes: 5 M. Scott Peck
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people. Votes: 1 Marianne Williamson
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. Votes: 7 Douglas Hurd
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers. Votes: 3 Zeena Schreck
I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. Votes: 3 Ravi Shankar
The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with. Votes: 5 Richard Paul Evans
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help. Votes: 3 Julia Cameron
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden. Votes: 3 Ulisses Soares
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Votes: 3 Christopher Lasch
During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all. Votes: 4 Ching Hai
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. Votes: 1 Herb Elliott
I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way. Votes: 3 Alan Ball
Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill. Votes: 4 Max Heindel
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body Votes: 3 Gautama Buddha
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. Votes: 6 Billy Corgan
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys. Votes: 3 Henri Nouwen
I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge. Votes: 3 James E. Faust
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws. Votes: 3 N. T. Wright
Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda. Votes: 4 Henry Blackaby
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Votes: 6 Woodrow Wilson
The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime. Votes: 4 Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. Votes: 4 Sinclair B. Ferguson
President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man. Votes: 3 Joseph B. Wirthlin
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master... Votes: 4 Elizabeth Gilbert
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious. Votes: 6 Mark Batterson
I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith. Votes: 2 Lauren London
I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe. Votes: 3 Richard Pousette-Dart
I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. Votes: 1 Julia Cameron
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment. Votes: 4 Mahatma Gandhi
Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small family - that's the way we've developed our souls, the way we've become, and the way we feel safe, protected and loved. Votes: 3 Volkmar Sigusch
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. Votes: 2 David A. Bednar
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron Votes: 3 Piet Mondrian
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home. Votes: 3 Shannon L. Alder
Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel. Votes: 1 Steven Seagal
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. Votes: 2 Victoria Beckham
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. Votes: 3 Adyashanti
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit. Votes: 3 Edward McKendree Bounds
There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price. Votes: 3 F.B. Meyer
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. Votes: 6 Marianne Williamson
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. Votes: 4 Johann Arndt
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification. Votes: 3 Marianne Williamson
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave. Votes: 3 Kenny Loggins
Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms? Votes: 4 Robert Muller
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. Votes: 1 Helena Blavatsky
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. Votes: 4 Mahatma Gandhi
I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow. Votes: 5 Carol Moseley Braun
A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour along the travel. Votes: 4 Lailah Gifty Akita
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. Votes: 1 Richard Foster
Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then. Votes: 3 George Ogilvie
Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God. Votes: 3 Victor H Ernest
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. Votes: 1 Paul Twitchell
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters. Votes: 7 Star Jones
Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness. Votes: 3 Max Anders
I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers. Votes: 3 Cameron Mathison
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore. Votes: 4 Eckhart Tolle
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember. Votes: 3 Radhanath Swami
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. Votes: 2 Charles Eastman
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. Votes: 1 Max Lucado
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. Votes: 2 Herbie Hancock
A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture. Votes: 3 John Hagelin
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior. Votes: 5 John Ortberg
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. Votes: 3 Bridget Riley
You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out. Votes: 5 Thomas Kinkade
The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea. Votes: 4 Charlotte Sophia Kasl
I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage. Votes: 1 Gavin O'Connor
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. Votes: 3 John Podhoretz
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. Votes: 3 George Eliot
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight. Votes: 1 Stephen Baldwin
The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless. Votes: 1 Daniel D. Palmer
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. Votes: 7 Radhanath Swami
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. Votes: 2 Emanuel Swedenborg