Spiritual Quotes

"The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness"

Paul Twitchell, Celebrity

"When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject"

Joseph Story, Judge

"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world"

Mary Garden

"The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

"I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual"

Ja Rule, Musician

"I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks"

Melanie Chisholm, Musician

"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit"

Paul Twitchell, Celebrity

"A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show"

Roma Downey, Actress

"We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication"

Herb Elliott, Athlete

"The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk"

Ben Harper, Musician

"I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church"

Shaun Cassidy, Musician

"I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

"When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within"

Judith Wright, Poet

"The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty"

Fritz Todt, Soldier

"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then"

Dennis Banks, Educator

"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual"

Ben Harper, Musician

"A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick"

James Franco, Actor

"God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power"

Dan Brown, Author

"It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father"

Esai Morales, Actor

"Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two"

Franz Marc, Artist

"In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing"

Clarence Clemons, Musician

"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature"

Franz Marc, Artist

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