Spiritual Quotes

This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. (Fidel Castro)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. View quote
George C. Marshall
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. View quote
James Brown
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. View quote
E. O. Wilson
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been. View quote
John Templeton
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. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. View quote
Lewis Mumford
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Max Beerbohm)
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.