Spiritual Quotes

"I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you"

"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"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"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, Author

"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

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

Bridget Riley, Artist

"An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

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

George Crook, Soldier

"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual"

Paul Tournier, Author

"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"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"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"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"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"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"

Tina Turner, Musician

"The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"

Jimmy Carter, President

"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants"

Jimmy Carter, President

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