Spiritual Quotes

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

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

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

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

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.

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

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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

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

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

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.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

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.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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