Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Spirituality

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Pilgrim, Peace

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?

Michelangelo

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Renan, Ernest

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

John of the Cross, St.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Orwell, George

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

Suzuki, Daisetz T.

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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Ruskin, John

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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.

Bible

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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Champman, George

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Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Jung, Carl

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

Hui-Hai

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He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Bhagavad Gita

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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

James, William

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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.

Long, Nancy

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The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essential good of mankind. Only those who have guided the development of their spirit as well as their mind are really; qualified to use wisely the things that man's reason has enabled him to fashion out of nature's raw materials.

Fields, E. S.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Voltaire

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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

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This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Dyer, Wayne

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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Schweitzer, Albert

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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

Buddha

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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.

Houston, Jean

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Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

FeNelon, Francois

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Hubbard, Elbert

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As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Lee, Bruce

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Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Burbank, Luther

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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Buber, Martin

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The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Pilgrim, Peace

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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Saadi

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Seattle, Chief

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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Dass, Ram