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Quotes About Spirituality

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
~ F. R. Scott
When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.
~ F.B. Meyer
You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.
~ George MacDonald
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
~ George MacDonald
Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.
~ Gordon MacQuarrie
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
~ Hannah More
In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.
~ Harry Kemelman
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
~ Henry A. Wallace
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
~ Tennessee Williams
The purpose of all major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
~ Tenzin Gyatso
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
~ Tenzin Gyatso
Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there
~ Terence McKenna
There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about!
~ Terence McKenna