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Quotes About Spirituality

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
~ Hans Rookmaaker
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
~ Unknown
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
~ Edmund Burke
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
~ Marcel Duchamp
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
~ Olivia Newton-John
I am the soul in limbo.
~ Unknown
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.
~ Jamake Highwater
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
~ Saint Augustine
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.
~ Deepak Chopra
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
~ Melissa Pritchard
When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.
~ Taheyya Kariokka
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
~ Ernst Haas
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
~ Saint Augustine
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
~ William Morris
The divine art is the story.
~ Isak Dinesen
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
~ Andre Malraux
It's a divine art to be cheerful.
~ Meher Baba