Spiritual Quotes

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity"

David Knopfler, Musician

"But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time"

Stella Adler, Actress

"I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not"

Van Morrison, Musician

"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"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"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation"

Margaret Deland, Novelist

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over"

Amy Alcott, Athlete

"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"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"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"

Amy Lee, Musician

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

Amy Lee, Musician

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"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"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"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"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"Greatness is a spiritual condition"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate"

George William Russell, Writer

"I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor"

George William Russell, Writer

"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche"

George Crumb, Composer

"I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness"

Henry Reed, Writer

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