Spiritual Quotes

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

~ Gary Zukav

Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

~ Marianne Williamson

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

~ Drew Gilpin Faust

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

~ Richard Foster

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

~ Michael Moore

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

~ David Bowie

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

~ Billy Corgan

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

~ James Broughton

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

~ Bernie Siegel

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

~ Mark Batterson

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

~ Marianne Williamson

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

~ Charles Bukowski

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

~ Annie Dillard

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

~ Radhanath Swami

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

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

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

~ Susan B. Anthony

A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

~ Eden Robinson

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

~ Matisyahu

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo