Quotes About Spirituality

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.