Home / Topics / Spiritual Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

Browse 12844 quotes about Spiritual.

Spiritual Quotes

“Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.”

“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.”

Whole Spiritual Order Loses Sin Benefits Advantage Concern Catholic Whole Life Customs Amendments

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.”

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.”

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.”

Knows Needs Spiritual Community Responsibility Humility Members Benefits Profound Dependent Wilderness Dependence Interdependence Indebtedness

Author:Howard Zahniser

“Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.”

Spiritual Destiny Creative Benefits Mass Standing Out Creative Life

Author:Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.”

Spiritual Evil Results Benefits Institutions Mature Spiritual Life Preaching Exceed

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.”

Men Needs Christian Spiritual Young Written Reader Benefits Deserve Combination Young Man Lasting Seriousness Invaluable Graciousness

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."”

Wells Might Spiritual Feet Benefits Catholic Luck Saint Medal Rabbits Good Luck Relics

Author:Dave Hunt

“The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.”

Ifs Spiritual Spirituality Our Lives Journey Benefits Quests Inclination Spiritual Beings

Book:Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

Source: Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

“Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Helping Spiritual Progress This World Ready Duty Ought Benefits Concern Indifferent Stopping Worldly Spiritual Progress

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.”

May Sometimes Spiritual Praying Benefits Affliction Tempted

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.”

Knows Needs Kind Soul Body Spiritual Father Grace Teacher Wise Development Blessing Benefits Eternity Creator Granted Spiritual Life Commandments Godly Fasting

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria