Spiritual Quotes

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.

~ Mike Love

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

~ O. R. Melling

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

~ Victoria Beckham

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

~ Diane Ackerman

I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.

~ James E. Faust

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

~ Paul Brunton

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

~ George Whitefield

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

~ Ray Comfort

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

~ Kris Carr

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

~ Mike Mccurry

We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.

~ Debbie Ford

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

~ Joyce Brothers

The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

~ A. R. Rahman

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

~ Imran Khan

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

~ Billy Graham

Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

~ Dolores Del Rio

I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

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

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

~ John Henrik Clarke

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

~ Peter Ackroyd

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

~ Mario Botta

Art is the path to being spiritual.

~ Piet Mondrian

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

~ Henri Nouwen

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

~ Zachary Levi

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

~ John Naisbitt

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

~ Damian Marley

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

~ John Naisbitt

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

~ Norman Foster

The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

~ Lisa Lampanelli

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

~ Bell Hooks

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

~ John Piper

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

~ Pope Francis

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

~ Julius Erving