Spiritual Quotes - page 3

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. (George William Russell)
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. View quote
Mark Twain
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. View quote
Charles Bukowski
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 fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. View quote
Franz Werfel
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. View quote
Franz Kafka
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. View quote
Martin Luther
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. View quote
Martha Beck
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. View quote
M. Scott Peck
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. View quote
Paul Brunton
Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith. View quote
Paul Brunton
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. View quote
Andrew Weil
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual. View quote
Helen Fisher
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. View quote
Shakti Gawain
In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay and ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal, secular and religious, because these pairs of words express a Christian dichotomy which has no equivalent in the world of Islam. View quote
Bernard Lewis
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. View quote
Claudio Monteverdi