Spiritual Quotes · Page 154

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

“Praying for greatness without looking out for opportunities is like waiting for an aircraft at a seaport.”

— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

— Henri Poincare

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

— Amit Goswami

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes

— Martin Luther

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

— Penn Badgley

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our…

— Bill McKibben

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining…

— Dalai Lama

The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we…

— Pope Gregory I

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would…

— Sophia Myles

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for…

— Anonymous

“More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones—the new nonreligious—is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in…

— Krista Tippett

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias…

— Leonard Cohen

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

— George Eliot

Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise…

— Mark Hopkins

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the…

— Allen West

The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those…

— Hakim Bey

I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon…

— Richard G. Scott

“In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods, it does not have the knowledge of the ultimate goal (to experience Pure…

— Dada Bhagwan

What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,…

— Dylan Thomas

Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure…

— Jen Hatmaker

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

— Geneen Roth

“I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.”

— John Paul Warren

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

— Douglas Hurd

“When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].”

— Dada Bhagwan

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

— Oswald Chambers

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

— Alan Cohen

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

— Sinead O'Connor

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

— Dalai Lama

“The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.”

— Donna Goddard

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

— Anonymous

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

— Ovid

Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

— Ken Keyes Jr

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises