Quotes About Spirituality

I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.

The most excellent jihad is that for the conquest of self.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Every need I have is met and most of my desires. I have a peace and joy in my life that I don't even understand. So, this can't be anything but God.

Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

Henry Mitchell, in his book One Man's Garden, observes that it is not important for a garden to be beautiful in everyone's eyes. But it is extremely important for the gardener to think it is a fair substitute for Eden. Perhaps this is an overstatement, or perhaps it is a theological truth.

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

I called to the Lord from my narrow prison and He answered me in the freedom of space.

Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

Es esta libertad espiritual, que no se nos puede arrebatar, lo que hace que la vida tenga sentido y propósito

After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Et lux in tenebris lucet—and the light shineth in the darkness

self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

el amor trasciende la persona física del ser amado y halla su sentido más profundo en el ser espiritual, el yo íntimo. Que esté o no presente esa persona, que siga viva o no, en cierto modo carece de importancia.

son las circunstancias excepcionalmente adversas o difíciles las que otorgan al hombre la oportunidad de crecer espiritualmente más allá de sí mismo.

Son las circunstancias excepcionalmente adversas o difíciles las que otorgan al hombre la oportunidad de crecer espiritualmente más allá de si mismo.

Psychological observations of the prisoners have shown that only the men who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influences.

M]an does not live by welfare alone.