Spiritual Quotes

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

"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis"

Doug Coupland, Author

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

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"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

"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"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"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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

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

Mel Gibson, Actor

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world"

George Eliot, Author

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life"

Buddha, Leader

"Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult"

Sting, Musician

"I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life"

Sting, Musician

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"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

"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

"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

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

Dalai Lama, Leader

"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

"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

"Music is the voice of the spiritual world"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

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

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"

Barack Obama, President

"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

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

Bridget Riley, Artist

"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

"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

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"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

"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

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