Great Spiritual Quotes
44 Great Spiritual quotes by 40 unique authors
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
— Henri Nouwen
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
— Andre Gide
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Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to…
— Jack Kornfield
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The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been…
— Billy Graham
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around…
— Richard Rohr
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The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.
— Richard Tarnas
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The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
— Erich Fromm
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Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,”…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal…
— Unknown Author
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We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when…
— Jane Goodall
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You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This…
— Henry B. Eyring
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ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain.…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.
— J. Edwin Orr
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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…
— Fritz Sauckel
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The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.
— Ernest Holmes
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
— Richard Rohr
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In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of…
— Gregory Palamas
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Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are…
— Russell M. Nelson
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We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of…
— Griffith John
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We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual and cultural heritage. …
— Pope Francis
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Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.…
— Parker J. Palmer
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For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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