Top Spiritual Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Spiritual quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Julian of Norwich
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.
- Julian of Norwich
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Henry Moore
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
- Henry Moore
Collection: Spiritual
Image of David Foster Wallace
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.
- David Foster Wallace
Collection: Spiritual
Image of LeRoy Neiman
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
- LeRoy Neiman
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Andrew Harvey
A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Andrew Harvey
Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Pattie Mallette
My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.
- Pattie Mallette
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Matthew Modine
Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.
- Matthew Modine
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Ignazio Silone
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
- Ignazio Silone
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Dean Ornish
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
- Dean Ornish
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Dean Ornish
Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.
- Dean Ornish
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Paul Weyrich
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.
- Paul Weyrich
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Harriet Lerner
Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
- Harriet Lerner
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Marion Milner
until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.
- Marion Milner
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Harry Belafonte
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.
- Harry Belafonte
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Dallas Willard
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Spiritual
Image of H. P. Blavatsky
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Collection: Spiritual
Image of H. P. Blavatsky
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Collection: Spiritual
Image of H. P. Blavatsky
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Collection: Spiritual
Image of John Derbyshire
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Arthur Middleton
It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.
- Arthur Middleton
Collection: Spiritual
Image of E. O. Wilson
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
- E. O. Wilson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Paul of the Cross
In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being.
- Paul of the Cross
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Josef Pieper
Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Josef Pieper
...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity can the strength to support the physical and spiritual suffering of injury and death be nourished.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Marianne Williamson
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Marianne Williamson
What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Neale Donald Walsch
Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Timothy B. Tyson
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.
- Timothy B. Tyson
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Mike Yaconelli
Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.
- Mike Yaconelli
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Mike Yaconelli
Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude
- Mike Yaconelli
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Samuel Rutherford
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
- Samuel Rutherford
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Bill Vaughan
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Elif Safak
A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
- Elif Safak
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Elif Safak
Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".
- Elif Safak
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Bruce R. McConkie
All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.
- Bruce R. McConkie
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Alice Bailey
Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.
- Alice Bailey
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Thomas Merton
True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Thomas Merton
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Philip Gilbert Hamerton
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Richard G. Scott
No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your interest. Challenges are growth experiences,temporary scenes to be played out on the background of a pleasant life. Don’t become so absorbed in a single event that you can’t think of anything else or care for yourself or for those who depend upon you. Remember, much like the mending of the body, the healing of some spiritual and emotional challenges takes time.
- Richard G. Scott
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Richard G. Scott
Father in Heaven knew that you would face challenges and be required to make some decisions that would be beyond your own ability to decide correctly…That assistance will come to you through the Holy Ghost as spiritual guidance. It is a power, beyond your own capability, that a loving Heavenly Father wants you to use consistently for your peace and happiness.
- Richard G. Scott
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Benito Mussolini
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
- Benito Mussolini
Collection: Spiritual
Image of David Suzuki
Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
- David Suzuki
Collection: Spiritual