Quotes About Spiritual

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.