Spiritual Quotes

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash"

"People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance"

"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy"

Alban Berg, Composer

"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process"

Arthur Middleton, Politician

"The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty"

Alice Foote MacDougall

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together"

Edgar Winter, Musician

"The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures"

David K. Shipler

"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level"

Charlie Trotter, Celebrity

"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage"

Jose Bergaman

"Only a spiritual being has awareness"

Chick Corea, Musician

"All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted"

Janet Erskine Stuart, Poet

"You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it"

Amelia E. Barr

"I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise"

Jenny Eclair, Comedian

"Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one"

Warren R. Austin, Politician

"I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths"

Steven Seagal, Actor

"A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world"

Morris Dees, Lawyer

"I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God"

Andy Dick, Actor

"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people"

Matthew Fox

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations"

Samuel Ullman, Poet

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness"

Shakti Gawain, Author

"I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing"

J. T. Walsh, Actor

"When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth"

William H. Hunt, Soldier

"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it"

Linda Blair, Actress

"The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is"

James Broughton, Director

"Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker"

William Griffith Wilson, Celebrity

"I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness"

Terry Riley, Composer

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