Spirituality Quotes
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What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning. (Quote by - Walker Percy)
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt. (Quote by - Don Williams, Jr.)
Believe in something larger than yourself. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again. (Quote by - St. John of the Cross)
All things are possible to him who believes. (Quote by - Bible)
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (Quote by - Rabbi David Wolpe)
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path. (Quote by - Gautam Buddha)
Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. (Quote by - Holtei)
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Quote by - Ralph Hodgson)
Faith is the evidence of things not seen. (Quote by - Bible)
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. (Quote by - Kalu Rinpoche)
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. (Quote by - Oliver St. John Gogarty)
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God. (Quote by - James Hudson Taylor)
Faith is believing before receiving. (Quote by - Alfred A. Montapert)
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway. (Quote by - Fredrick Buechner)
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. (Quote by - Alexander Eliot)
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
In the faces of men and women I see God. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. (Quote by - Stanley Bladwin)
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. (Quote by - David Steindl-Rast)
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. (Quote by - L. P. Jacks)
If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own. (Quote by - John. F. Kennedy)
Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits. (Quote by - Antonio Machado)
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. (Quote by - M. Scott Peck)
God gave burdens, also shoulders. (Quote by - Jewish saying)
Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God. (Quote by - Sant Kirpal Singh)
Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind. (Quote by - Adlin Sinclair)
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
God is seated in the hearts of all. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits. (Quote by - Nancy Long)
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Quote by - Ashley Montague )
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself. (Quote by - Dean Ornish)
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. (Quote by - Francois FéNelon)
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. (Quote by - George Champman)
My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra.)
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. (Quote by - George Edward Woodberry)
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes. (Quote by - Adlin Sinclair)
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
