Spiritual Quotes: Inspiring Words for the 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"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

Ed Case, Politician

"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"

David O. Russell, Director

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"Coincidences are spiritual puns"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire"

Thomas Merton, Author

"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"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"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

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"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"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul"

Lee Atwater, Politician

"What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future"

Dave Davies, Musician

"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"

Sai Baba, Leader

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"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"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"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

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The spiritual is the parent of the practical"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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