Spiritual Quotes

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers"

"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"

"The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character"

"The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind"

"There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels"

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death"

"For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter"

"For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine"

"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions"

"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values"

"I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band"

"There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience"

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind"

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world"

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact"

"To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means"

"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"

"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"

"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history"

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive"

"What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now"

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"

"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves"

"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages"

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive"

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

"The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical"